Recompiling the kernel?

[Timothy Murphy]

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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