Re: 2.6.0 kernel compile overview

Theo. Sean Schulze
2004-01-05T18:16:29Z

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
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