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From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Subject: Re: changeset: Make forced module loading optional
Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 11:32:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080505153230.GA25704@codemonkey.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.10.0805050835450.11757@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>

On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 08:43:06AM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
 
 > So it's like:
 > 	<hack hack hack>
 > 	make modules_install
 > 	cp arch/x86/boot/bzImage /boot/mykernel
 > 	cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.6.26.1
 > 	mkinitrd -i /boot/myinitrd -k /boot/mykernel # suse, fedora might slightly different

For Fedora (and many other distros), you can replace the last three lines with 'make install'
It'll do everything. Construct the initrd. Install it & the vmlinuz, point grub.conf at it. etc.

	Dave

-- 
http://www.codemonkey.org.uk

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-05 15:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-05  4:55 changeset: Make forced module loading optional Rusty Russell
2008-05-05  5:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-05  5:35   ` Rusty Russell
2008-05-05 17:07     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-05 18:42       ` Rusty Russell
2008-05-05 19:47         ` David Miller
2008-05-05  6:43   ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-05-05 14:37     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-05 14:50       ` Jeff Garzik
2008-05-05 15:01         ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-05 15:08           ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-05 15:32     ` Dave Jones [this message]
2008-05-05 15:48       ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-05 16:01       ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-05-05 15:57         ` Alan Cox
2008-05-05  6:35 ` Jan Engelhardt

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