I've made kernels that have only raid1, ext2 and a single block device built-in, with the rest as modules (including raid5). It was a long while ago.. pre git days. Oops.. you'll need to include the initramfs built-in too. video, keyboard, network, mouse, usb... you don't, strictly speaking, need those built-in. I recommend including video as a built-in until you have a cleanly booting kernel.. then switch the video to a module as the last change. Or, perhaps netconsole... in which case it's those options that are last to be switched to a module or dropped entirely. It's that or trial-and-error kernel debugging with no error feedback.. have fun with that. Cheers! -phil On 3 June 2013 13:35, Paul Hays <Paul [ dot ] Hays [ at ] cattail [ dot ] ca> wrote: > Haven't tried make almodconfig. > > We'd need to build-in any modules needed for boot (e.g. disk, and maybe > video, keyboard, network, mouse, usb). If any aren't handled automatically, > I think they can be forced in using a file named all.config in the > top-level build directory. (Seems obvious, but I've built kernels that are > missing those!) > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Linux mailing list > Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/**listinfo/linux<http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux> >