Re: set up new kernel with grub

On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 12:28:03PM -0500, Michael wrote:
Hi, ***,

Your steps work beautifully. Thanks.

If you could explain a little about what happens in each step, that
would be even better.

# cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.20.3
If your current kernel is 2.6.20.3, edit the Makefile to
add some character after "EXTRAVERSION" as EXTRAVERSION= 3x
# cp .config ..

Save your existing config file in the parent directory.

# make distclean

Clean the files generated by last compiling.

# cp ../.config .

Copy your .config back here.

# make oldconfig

"The make oldconfig command causes the kernel configuration process to read in your existing configuration information and then prompt you for a value for any kernel configuration variables that were not provided set the existing kernel configuration file."

# make

Check all changed object files, and do the final kernel image link.

# make modules_install

Reinstall the newly-compiled modules.

# make install

Copy the kernel image and system.map to /boot and modify /boot/grub/menu.lst (or lilo.conf) properly.



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