> 5. Run 'make modules_install && make install'.

I nerver did that, I just 'make modules_install' and
manually copy the bzImage file from arch/i386/boot to
/boot and manually modify lilo.conf. always work :-)


> 
> 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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