[Voyage-linux] Building/installing a Linux/Voyage kernel

[Ron Lee]

Hi all,

I needed to build a kernel to enable some kernel options that were
disabled in the
standard Linux/Voyage kernel. I downloaded the source tree
http://www.voyage.hk/dists/0.5/linux/linux-source-2.6.23-voyage_5.0-1_all.deb
and followed the instructions on the wiki page.

All compiling steps seem fine, I did a make-kpkg:
make-kpkg --revision="5.0-1" --append-to-version ".080401"
kernel-image --rootcmd fakeroot
and obtained a Debian package: linux-image-2.6.23.080401_5.0-1_i386.deb.

But when I tried to install this kernel on my Linux/Voyage machine,
something went wrong:

pcengines-2:/usr/src# dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.23.080401_5.0-1_i386.deb
Selecting previously deselected package linux-image-2.6.23.080401.
(Reading database ... 17077 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking linux-image-2.6.23.080401 (from
linux-image-2.6.23.080401_5.0-1_i386.deb) ...
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
debconf: (No usable dialog-like program is installed, so the dialog
based frontend cannot be used. at
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm line 75.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
Done.
Setting up linux-image-2.6.23.080401 (5.0-1) ...
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
debconf: (No usable dialog-like program is installed, so the dialog
based frontend cannot be used. at
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm line 75.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
Running depmod.


After rebooting my Linux/Voyage machine, I only see the default
Linux/Voyage kernel
in the GRUB menu. And when I tried to boot this kernel, booting failed:
Booting 'voyage-linux-11Mar08'

root (hd0,0)
 Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel /vmlinuz root=LABEL=ROOT_FS  console=ttyS0,115200n8
   [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x2800, size=0x1468b8]
initrd /initrd.img

Error 15: File not found

Press any key to continue...


My questions are:
- It seems that I need to install some dialog-like program. Can anyone
please tell me
what I need to install?
- Is there anything else that I did wrong?

Much thanks!
Ron