On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 08:43 -0400, ne... wrote: > On Jul 2, 2004 at 16:13, Parameshwara Bhat in a soothing rage wrote: > > >Hello friends, > > > >I wanted to build kernel - for fun,for learning basically - and installed > >... > You need to read the kernel compiling HOWTO so that you know the steps > to take and it what order. You also need to understand what each step > does. 'make mrproper' cleans out _all_ your configuration that you > make in the build tree. So after running that step, you need to > configure the kernel build. Then do a 'make dep clean bzImage > modules'. Here's a brief procedure/script that has worked many times: #!/bin/bash # /root/bin/make_linux # Kernel build steps: # 1. Unpack the sources or install kernel-source<version>.i386.rpm # and cd to source directory (ex: "cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-1.358") # 2. make mrproper # 3. Recommended - copy the .config file from configs/ or from your # old linux kernel source tree to new kernel tree (may save time, # if you want to reuse the old settings). # (ex: "cp cp configs/kernel-2.6.5-i686.config .config") # then "make oldconfig" # 4. make xconfig (gconfig for 2.6, 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. configure LILO or GRUB (install does this) # 12. Optional - make clean (If you want to free up disk space) # Alternative for 6-11 for 2.6: make all # This script implements steps 6-11 for FC2 (all one logical line) # May want to add make flag "-j N", N ~= 3...6 to run parallel jobs (make && make bzImage && make modules && make modules_install \ && make install) >& /tmp/MakeKernel.log # Check the log for errors, edit grub.conf as desired, reboot or repeat.
