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[SOLVED] Successful Self-compile and remix to Kernel Help

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[SOLVED] Successful Self-compile and remix to Kernel Help

#1 Post by scdas141 »

Hi everyone..

Long-time Windows 7/10 user, I have been using SparkyLinux - http://SparkyLinux.org based on Debian Testing / "sid" for quite some time now.. a very pleasant experience I might add.. I have the 4.9.13 kernel-LXDE with Openbox Desktop..

Just for the fun of it, decided to download Kernel 4.10.3 [Stable] from Kernel.org and remix it to my existing kernel, which I found on this excellent article on how to self-compile linux kernels:

http://www.linux.org/threads/the-linux- ... ling.5208/

using:

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zcat /proc/config.gz > .config &&  make && make modules && make install && make modules_install
After that, I created the initrd images and grub-menu by:

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sudo update-initramfs -u;sudo update-grub;
I have been able to logon into my HomeBrew Kernel which looks very nice but the only thing is that local-disk i/o has gone down to 3-4 MB/s which is very low..

I guess a little help from you guyz could sort this out for me..

:D :D

PS. Guys taking wild guesses trying to help out, please excuse..

EDIT:
[SOLVED] -- adding noatime to root ext4 partition in /etc/fstab probably did the trick...
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Re: Successful Self-compile and remix to Kernel Help

#2 Post by Head_on_a_Stick »

scdas141 wrote:using:

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zcat /proc/config.gz > .config &&  make && make modules && make install && make modules_install
The stock Debian kernel does not set CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC but instead stores the configuration in /boot

Please either re-post your question over at https://sparkylinux.org/forum/ or reproduce this issue with a Debian kernel.
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#3 Post by scdas141 »

you know.. sparkylinux forums are so slow, it hasn't even garnered a single view apart from mine..

https://sparkylinux.org/forum/index.php ... 887.0.html

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Head_on_a_Stick wrote:reproduce this issue with a Debian kernel.
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#5 Post by scdas141 »

Hi Stick dude.. Thks for the heads up..

Also, I strongly suspect that Sparky is almost the exact debian-clone albeit with a few cosmetic setting-changes.. sources.list, etc..

I found this config-4.10.3 in /boot:

http://pastebin.com/JDDJ4Tqt

Any other info that u might need. most welcome..

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#6 Post by stevepusser »

I think there's a bit more to Sparky than that---a Pale Moon compiled from source and homegrown tools to work around the broken Debian Flash installers are just a couple things I remember from skimming through their repos.

You could try rebuilding the upstream Debian 4.10 kernel packages, but that takes a lot longer when it goes about converting and building the documentation and debug packages than just your straight kernel compile.
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Re: [SOLVED] Successful Self-compile and remix to Kernel Hel

#7 Post by scdas141 »

[SOLVED] -- adding noatime to root ext4 partition in /etc/fstab probably did the trick...

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