From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Theo. Sean Schulze" Subject: Re: 2.6.0 kernel compile overview Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 19:16:29 +0100 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040105181629.GA28594@teamfinders.org> References: <3FF99D13.1050403@sancharnet.in> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3FF99D13.1050403@sancharnet.in> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 10:51:23PM +0530, joy hunted and pecked out: > James Miller wrote: > [James Miller's request for info on compiling a 2.6.x kernel snipped.] > > > > > There isn't much of a difference actually, the only major difference (to > us end users ;) > is that the compilation looks cleaner. > also, now there are fewer steps to follow (thank god) > 1. make mrproper > 2. make menuconfig > here you can load the config file created and add the rest of the > necessary options. > 3. make > this takes care of even generating the bzImage (hooray!) > 4. make modules > 5. make modules_install (which I had forgotten and asked on this list today) > so all you have to do is copy the image to your /boot, run lilo (after > editing lilo.conf, obviously) and you are done! > I can't find the reference right now, but I think step 3 should actually be 'make install' if you want to get a compressed kernel image and System.map file moved to either / or /boot (if you have edited the Makefile to install to /boot). If I am wrong, someone please correct me. Cheers, Sean > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs -- Theo. Sean Schulze tschulze@teamfinders.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs