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On 2/7/07, Robin Cornelius <robin.cornelius@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Neil Williams wrote: > > On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 14:47:57 +0000 > > "Robin Cornelius" <robin.cornelius@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> Hi everyone, > >> > >> I am upgrading my development system to kernel 2.6.20 and my initrd > >> creation has gone very wrong. For some reason the initrd is now 51 Meg > >> in size, previous initrd's are about 4.4Mb. > > > > Are you cross-compiling or compiling native? > > Native, i386 based on .config settings of 2.6.17.3 with a make oldconfig > to update the differences in kernel options. > Right after 16 Hours + of rebuilding the kernel from scratch again its all ok now. It appears that i must of picked some duff kernel option combinations that resulted in an incomplete module build (but no error telling me this) and mkinitrd had a fit and could not cope and just dumped all modules it could find into the image. I really should get my desktop and laptop in sync so i can build kernel .deb packages on my desktop for the laptop! -- Robin Cornelius http://www.byteme.org.uk -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html