I have been having problems recently with kernel compilations and installations. Here are the steps I take:
1. Download the vanilla kernel source from a kernel.org mirror. 2. Extract it and patch it. 3. Run through the configuration process and edit the Makefile. 4. Run 'make dep && make clean && make bzImage && make modules'. 5. Run 'make modules_install && make install'. This process used to work perfectly, but now the process freezes my whole computer whenever I get to the /sbin/installkernel phase (part of 'make install'), and specifically when it gets to running mkinitrd. On a quick glance of the 'make install' process, I noticed a reference to zImage. This is strange because I used 'make bzImage', not 'make zImage'. After a hard reboot, the kernel looked as if it was mostly installed: there were modules in /lib/modules/ and various files in /boot. The only file missing in /boot was an initrd image. As an experiment, I configured the new kernel in /etc/lilo.conf, but I got a "Kernel [name] is too big!" error whenever I tried to run LILO (as if I had used 'make zImage' instead of 'make bzImage'). -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "I feel that open, competitive markets, free thought and democracy all flourish only when we defend the medium itself as being independent. That may mean constraints that carriers cannot also supply software, that suppliers of generic software should be constrained from competing in markets which that software gives access to." -- Tim Berners-Lee, founder of the World Wide Web
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