Phil Schaffner wrote:
On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 14:09 -0500, Steve Pyatt wrote:
After trying for about two weeks to rebuild the kernel that comes with
FC2, I finally got it to work. At least to the point that it boots
correctly. The only web link I found that had correct instructions for
the kernel is this one;
http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2465
Well, that set of instructions omits "make mrproper" as the first step,
which can be critical for Red Hat kernels - certainly has been necessary
in the past. Also has quite a lot of stuff that is not relevant to
rebuilding/installing a Fedora kernel that may be confusing.
This procedure works for me:
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#!/bin/bash
# /root/bin/make_linux
#
# Kernel build steps:
# 1. Install the sources
# 2. cd <install directory> (e.g. /usr/src/linux-2.4
# 3. make mrproper
# 3a. optional - copy .config file from configs directory or
# old kernel, then "make oldconfig"
# 4. make xconfig (gconfig for 2.6 or menuconfig if not in X)
# 5. make dep (not required for 2.6 kernels)
# 6. make
# 7. make bzImage
# 8. make modules
# 9. make modules_install
# 10. make install
# 11. if required, configure bootloader. ("make install" will do
# this for you)
#
# This script implements steps 6-10
#
# Note: adjust "-j n" for performance on compilation
# runs parallel jobs
# -j 4 is a good starting place for single processor
(make -j 6 && make -j 6 bzImage && make -j 6 modules && \
make modules_install && make install) >& /tmp/MakeKernel.log
# check log file for errors when done, repeat as required, or reboot
# to test
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"make rpm" has also been suggested as a simple solution.
Sorry to hear you had such problems. Might have found better help in
the list archive - has been discussed before.
Phil
I followed your steps and everything went well with the 2.6.6 kernel
even NVIDIA drivers. I did everything in /home/user/src/kernel and it
is taking up a lot of space now. What do I do with the stuff that's in
the directory can I do a make clean, delete all of it, move it somewhere
else?
