Confused-finishing 2.6.2 install

Dennis Gilmore dennis at dgilmore.net
Fri Feb 6 10:47:40 UTC 2004


Once upon a time Friday 06 February 2004 8:37 pm, Scott Fones wrote:
> I'm a little confused.  I read the documentation and followed it though to
> compile/install the 2.6.2 kernel from source.  I ran my make
> modules_install and make install commands with no problems.  The readme now
> says to copy the /arch/i386/boot/bzImage to where my bootable kernal image
> is found.  So, I opened up /etc/grub.conf so see where it looks and it has
> two files it looks for in /boot. for a vmlinuz* file and an initrd* file. 
> From the looks of it the bzImage is renamed to vmlinuz, but thats just my
> inference from the directions.  My real problem is I have no idea where the
> initrd* file comes from.  Can anyone help me finish off this installation,
> this is my first time compiling a kernel and it was going so smoothly.

Just run make install 

Dennis
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