Install vanilla kernel
Jay Cliburn
jacliburn at bellsouth.net
Wed Aug 16 19:04:02 UTC 2006
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 11:12:25AM -0700, John Wendel wrote:
> Easy recipe follows
>
> [1] make a directory (in your home directory) to hold the sources, I
> called mine "kernel".
>
> > mkdir kernel
>
> [2] put the kernel tarfile, the latest patch file, and a kernel
> configuration file in the "kernel" directory. You can start with the
> configuration file in /boot.
>
> [3] run this script (change the version to match your kernel source).
>
> tar --bzip -xf linux-2.6.17.tar.bz2
> cd linux-2.6.17
> make mrproper
> cp ../patch* .
> bunzip2 patch*
> patch -p1 < patch*
> rm patch*
> make clean
>
> # skip this if you don't have an old config file
>
> cp ../configuration .config
> make oldconfig
>
> [4] If you don't have a kernel configuration file, or you need to make
> some changes,
>
> > make menuconfig (or one of the other menu options)
>
> [5] Build the new kernel
>
> I use the following, but there are other options to make an rpm if
> you're into pain.
>
> > make
> > make modules_install
> > make install
>
> [6] Your new kernel has been installed in /boot and /lib/modules, and
> grub has been updated.
>
> [7] Edit /boot/grub/grub.conf if you want to make the new kernel the
> default.
>
> [8] Say prayer to Linus and Reboot
Perfect! You filled in my knowledge gap with [6]. Thank you very much.
So are the symsets...tar.gz, symvers...gz, and config...fc6 files in /boot
*needed* by Red Hat/Fedora kernels?
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