On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 10:36:35PM -0500, Jonathan Markevich wrote:
> Please tell me I'm a moron and I'm clearly not running *command x*. Please
> tell me something... It's getting so blowing the thing away and
> reinstalling takes less time and frustration.
Hi,
Here is my cheat sheet of steps I follow every time, and it works every
time. I will admit that there are some subtle things about modules I
don't understand, but I get the idea it is important to have version
names match because that is how the system finds them. For instance I
have:
/lib/modules/2.0.36
/boot/System.map-2.0.36
/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36
It seems to me once upon a time I wasn't this verbose on my filenames
and I had a lot of error messages. I didn't add that step 15 just for
the hell of it . . . that's my notation for "I learned it the hard way."
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How to build a kernel
1) Install the Kernel package
2) symlink /usr/src/linux to your kernel directory
3) cd /usr/src/linux
4) make mrproper
5) make xconfig
6) make dep
7) make clean
8) make boot (or make bzImage)
9) make modules
10) cd /lib/modules; mv 2.x.xx 2.x.xx-old
11) cd /usr/src/linux; make modules_install
11) cd /boot
mv vmlinux-2.x.xx vmlinuz-2.x.xx-stock
12) cd /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot
cp zImage /boot/vmlinuz
13) emacs /etc/lilo
stock -> /boot/vmlinuz-stock
linux -> /boot/vmlinuz
14) /sbin/lilo -v
15) make sure the module/kernel names match
16) reboot!
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Thank you,
Joe Bouchard
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