From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756180AbYEEPcz (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2008 11:32:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750940AbYEEPcq (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2008 11:32:46 -0400 Received: from testure.choralone.org ([194.9.77.134]:38741 "EHLO testure.choralone.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750729AbYEEPcq (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2008 11:32:46 -0400 Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 11:32:30 -0400 From: Dave Jones To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Linus Torvalds , Rusty Russell , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jon Masters , Sam Ravnborg Subject: Re: changeset: Make forced module loading optional Message-ID: <20080505153230.GA25704@codemonkey.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Jan Engelhardt , Linus Torvalds , Rusty Russell , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jon Masters , Sam Ravnborg References: <200805051455.02723.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 08:43:06AM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > So it's like: > > 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