Recompiling the kernel?
Timothy Murphy
tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Wed May 5 18:35:52 UTC 2004
Elvio Caruana wrote:
> "make oldconfig" Keep the stuff that works, and answer any new question
> "make xconfig"
> "make dep"
> "make clean"
The last 2 lines are unnecessary with a 2.6.* kernel.
> "make bzImage"
> "cp /arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-x.x.x"
> "ln -s /boot/vmlinuz-x.x.x /boot/vmlinuz-x.x.x-new-kernel"
Isn't "make install" much easier than the last 2 lines?
> "make modules"
> "make modules_install"
> "make install"
> Edit /etc/rc.sysinit and change '/proc/sys/kernel/modprobe'
> to/sbin/modprobe'
Why?
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