On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 21:21, Dave Jones wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 03:14:08PM -0500, David C. Hart wrote: > > Maybe this will make life easier. WHERE in the process do I run make > > oldconfig? My normal "make" routine is: clean, mrproper, clean, bzImage, > > modules, modules_install, install. > > I use.. > > make mrproper > cp configs/whatever .config > make oldconfig > make oldconfig > make bzImage > make modules > make modules_install You forgot: make dep and make install If you're pretty confident of a successful build, you can just whack most of it onto one line: mv .config .. make clean mrproper mv ../.config . make oldconfig xconfig time nice -n +19 make oldconfig dep clean \ bzImage modules modules_install install The second "oldconfig" seems necessary on certain buggy systems, and the final "install" should take care of grub, the initrd, the kernel and system map, etc. However, one target that very few people use (and I don't know why!) is: make rpm Yes, it's that simple, although beware that this target does not build a mkinitrd script into the package (AFAIK) so you will need to: make rpm rpm -ivh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i<x>86/kernel-<version>.rpm mkinitrd /boot/initrd-<version>.img <version> vi /etc/grub.conf #insert new kernel into grub.conf However, you will end up with an RPM'ed kernel. Yup, I'm an RPM junkie. -- [H]omer
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