Mike Chambers wrote:
1 - make mrproper copy over config file if need be
Red Hat supplies the configs in the configs subdirectory , /usr/src/linux-2.4/configs That's a good starting point.
2 - make whateverconfig
To redo the Red Hat kernel, 'make oldconfig' To change a few settings, 'make menuconfig' is easiest. It reads the current config, and makes changes to it.
3 - make dep 4 - make clean
You shoulkd edit /usr/src/linux-2.4/Makefile and change the EXTRAVERSION line so you don't overwrite previouse modules with later compiles.
5 - make bzImage 6 - make modules 7 - make modules_install if rebuilding same version that already exists, rename or delete /lib/modules/kernel-version before running next step
modules_install deletes the old modules in /lib/moduled/$KERNELRELEASE (KERNELRELEASE=$VERSION.$PATCHLEVEL.$SUBLEVEL$EXTRAVERSION from toplevel Makefile). Another reason to change EXTRAVERSION for each install/modules_install you do.
8 - make install
This will do step 9 for you. 'make install' runs /sbin/installkernel which runs /sbin/new-kernel-pkg It also modifies grub and lilo config files.
9 - make intritd (I think this is right, for ext3 filesystems, verify this command before writing it down)
mkinitrd /boot/initrd.$KERNELRELEASE.img $KERNELRELEASE
10 - Check /boot dir and your grub.conf or lilo.conf to insure changes were copied/added, run /sbin/lilo if need be and reboot.
If you are using lilo to boot, it never hurts to run /sbin/lilo an extra time to be sure :) -Thomas
