There's one other thing that's helpful that I don't see mentioned all that
often in these discussions. Depending on your distro, you'll probably
have several config files in the source for its bundled kernel. I know
Redhat does this, not sure about others. They are in the configs/
directory when you untar (rpm, whatever) the distro's kernel source file.
I had a hell of a first time getting a vanilla kernel to work until I
realized this. They give you something to start from, anyway. It
probably won't help in this particular case, but I thought I'd throw it
out there...
-Ken
> On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 09:59, Mikes work account wrote:
>> Does anyone have access to a good clear tutorial on how to compile a
>> kernel from source?
>
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html
>
> This is how I compile a kernel:
>
> make menuconfig (or xconfig)
> make dep && make bzImage modules modules_install
> (modules_install must be run as root)
>
> copy bzImage to /boot/image-`uname -r`
> # ln -s /boot/image-`uname -r` /vmlinuz-`uname -r`
> copy System.map from source to /boot/System.map-`uname -r`
> add "image=" line to /etc/lilo.conf:
>
> image=/vmlinuz-`uname -r`
> label=`uname -r`
> read-only
>
> # lilo -v
>
> Reboot. Hold shift and select new kernel from lilo menu. If the kernel
> boots as expected, I add the new kernel image to the "default" line in
> lilo.conf, run `lilo -v` again and reboot.
>
> --
> Matt Miller
> Systems Administrator
> MP TotalCare
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