> Or, can I just not bother with initrd? Is it worth having?
You don't need it.
You should also probably change the kernel version number if it would
otherwise be the same as what you've already got. What I did was make
EXTRAVERSION=a, so that the new kernel version was 2.2.5a rather than the
2.2.5 that came with the system. This makes module version checking work
better. It lets you keep the new modules separate from the old ones, since
they'll end up in different directories.
My usual drill is
make clean (if necessary)
make config (or menuconfig or xconfig)
make dep
make
>From here on, I'm a little fuzzy, since I haven't done it in so long (my
kernels don't run directly on hardware).
add a lilo entry if it's not already there
as root, make zlilo
make modules
as root, make modules_install
reboot
Jeff
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