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shukalo83

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Registered: 2010-09-12

Posts: 6

mkinitcpio

Hello everyone. First time I use this forum.

I tried Arch and like it so far.

Following documentaion for kernel compiling, I came to:

mkinitcpio -k 2.6.32.8-revision1 -g /boot/kernel26-revision1.img

which in my version looks like:

mkinitcpio -k 2.6.36-rc3-revision1 -g /boot/kernel26-revision1.img

After this nothing seems to be happening. Even -v option does not produce any output.

In /boot, there is no new file kernel26-revision-1.img

Am I doing something wrong here?

codycarey

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Registered: 2009-08-21

Posts: 154

Re: mkinitcpio

What documentation are you following along with? The Arch 'approved' way is to use the current PKGBUILD of the kernel26 package, the information can be found here http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ker … 26_Package

kagerato

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Registered: 2007-09-10

Posts: 45

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Re: mkinitcpio

Did the command actually run?  'mkinitcpio' is located at /sbin/mkinitcpio and owned by package mkinitcpio (should be installed, don't know why it wouldn't be).  Normally, /sbin will be on root's path but it may not be on a normal user's.

Something definitely should output, even if it's just the shell saying command not found or an error from mkinitcpio.  When I enter an invalid command like "mkinitcpio -k 2.6.35-NADA", the program enters a "dry run" mode and does indeed output multiple lines.

shukalo83

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Registered: 2010-09-12

Posts: 6

Re: mkinitcpio

What documentation are you following along with? The Arch 'approved' way is to use the current PKGBUILD of the kernel26 package, the information can be found here http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ker … 26_Package

I folow http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ker … nal_method. More distro agnostic but I think it will give me better insight into how things actually work.

shukalo83

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Registered: 2010-09-12

Posts: 6

Re: mkinitcpio

Did the command actually run?  'mkinitcpio' is located at /sbin/mkinitcpio and owned by package mkinitcpio (should be installed, don't know why it wouldn't be).  Normally, /sbin will be on root's path but it may not be on a normal user's.

Something definitely should output, even if it's just the shell saying command not found or an error from mkinitcpio.  When I enter an invalid command like "mkinitcpio -k 2.6.35-NADA", the program enters a "dry run" mode and does indeed output multiple lines.

Nothing on the screen after comand. I also suspected whether it actually ran. I'll try directly /sbin/mkinitcpio

ataraxia

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From: Pittsburgh

Registered: 2007-05-06

Posts: 1,553

Re: mkinitcpio

If you're pasting the command from the wiki, be careful you don't accidentally paste the # in front of it also. It's easy to do that by accident and will make the shell ignore the whole line.

shukalo83

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Registered: 2010-09-12

Posts: 6

Re: mkinitcpio

If you're pasting the command from the wiki, be careful you don't accidentally paste the # in front of it also. It's easy to do that by accident and will make the shell ignore the whole line.

There were no # in front of mkinitcpio. Tried it several times. I've also checked history and no # sign in front of command

/sbin/mkinitcpio -v does not produce any output.

Strange. I'll try to uninstall the package with pacman and install it again.

Any suggestions?

Last edited by shukalo83 (2010-09-13 22:13:14)

brain0

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From: Aachen - Germany

Registered: 2005-01-03

Posts: 1,382

Re: mkinitcpio

Something is terribly wrong. mkinitcpio always produces some output.

Last edited by brain0 (2010-09-14 15:43:13)