Hi,

I'm trying to build my own kernel, as I want to write a kernel program which I need to compile into the kernel. So what did I do? Download from kernel.org, extract, do the make menuconfig and configure everything as needed, do a make, do a make modules_install, do a make install and finally do a update-grub. Result: It doesn't boot at all....

Now I had a look here and it describes a different way of compiling a kernel. Could this be the reason whz my way did not work? Or does anyone else have an idea why my kernel doesn't work?

Great answer, ty. Oli. But I tried it the old fashioned way, and after one hour of compiling I got this message:

install -p    -o root -g root  -m  644 ./debian/templates.master /usr/src/linux-2.6.37.3/debian/linux-image-2.6.37.3meinsmeins/DEBIAN/templates
dpkg-gencontrol -DArchitecture=i386 -isp         \
        -plinux-image-2.6.37.3meinsmeins -P/usr/src/linux-2.6.37.3/debian/linux-image-2.6.37.3meinsmeins/
dpkg-gencontrol: error: package linux-image-2.6.37.3meinsmeins not in control info
make[2]: *** [debian/stamp/binary/linux-image-2.6.37.3meinsmeins] Error 255
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.37.3'
make[1]: *** [debian/stamp/binary/pre-linux-image-2.6.37.3meinsmeins] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.37.3'
make: *** [kernel-image] Error 2