questions on reconfigure and re-install a kernel on FC6 - kernel - Fedora mailing-lists

25 May 2007


      Hi all:
I appreciate very much if anybody can provide me some help on re-configure 
and compile a kernel, such as the procedures and the source directory 
location and the name of the .config file used.
I got the error message saying the Kernel is not configured, but I do have 
run the command
in 2. as listed below, I must have missed something?
My machine already has 2.6.20.2948 installed, and I want to change the 
kernel configuration,
I am not sure what directory the source code, and .config, that I should 
use.
1. what is the directory that I should find the correct root for MAKE the 
kernel source code:
    Is it /usr/src/linux-2.6.X/Build/  or is it 
/usr/src/kernel/...2.6.20.2948?
2.  if I do a make O=/home/name/build/kernel  menuconfig
     What will happen?  Is a .config file producted?  If so, where is it 
stored?
     What directory  I need to copy the .config file to before I compile the 
kernel?
3.  if I run the following  to compile a kernel, will it store both the 
kernel binary
     image and module binary files to the directory set by O =
make O=/home/name/build/kernel
4.  What does the modules_insall and install do?
     copy the bzImage to the O= location?
kathy