Niels Terp wrote: > Hi there, > > I have build LFS several times now, and I wanted to upgrade to the new > kernel 3.8.3. > > I started out from scratch, the only change I made from the book was the new > kernel. Since I have a quad-core processor in my laptop, I made all the > builds whith the make flag '-j 4'. And because I had made the build several > times on the same hardware, I skipped most of the tests. It didn't work :-( > > Then I repeated the whole thing, this time without the make flag. It still > didn't work.
What didn't work? Boot? What happened? > Is there anything special I should do, to use the 3.8.3 kernel ? And now > 3.8.4 is out, what about that one ? Use the latest. > And by the way, what is the correct procedure if I want to upgrade the > kernel after an installation is finished ? I guess I would have to extract > the headers, and rebuild GCC and GLIBC ? What about the other programs, is > any of them using the kernel headers ? Just build the kernel and copy to /boot. Then update grub.cfg. Do *not* change the headers. They need to be the same as used for building glibc. The is no need to update gcc or glibc. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
