Antonio Olivares wrote:
--- Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
--- Temlakos <temlakos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Rick Stevens wrote:
Antonio Olivares wrote:
Dear all,
I was afraid to update to a newer kernel
with
all
the messages that the system won't boot but I
am
taking a risk. I have downloaded
2.6.11.7.tar.bz2 and
extracted it. I read the README and have done
the
following:
make mrproper
make xconfig
make dep
make clean
make bzImage
What else do i need to do? I am still running
2.6.9-1.667. I need to manually edit
/boot/grub.conf
to put the new kernel.
What advice can you give me?
Do I need to do a modules install? or something
like
that.
I appreciate all the help that you can provide.
You don't need the "make dep" or "make clean"
steps with 2.6 kernels.
Simply:
make mproper
make xconfig
make bzImage
make modules
make modules_install
make install
That should do it all for you. Double check
your
/boot/grub/grub.conf
file to verify that the new kernel got
installed.
Of course, why don't you just "yum update
kernel"
and use the
precompiled binary 2.6.11 kernel for FC3 from
the
official repositories?
I can't speak for Antonio; maybe he has plunged
into
Fedora and hasn't
mastered the rpm and yum commands. (/I/ still have
trouble with them,
sometimes.) But I have heard that compiling from
source gives you an
application, or a kernel, optimized for your
machine
in a way no binary
can match. Is that true? If it is, then those
instructions will prove
very valuable.
I agree with that part(But I have heard that
compiling
from
source gives you an
application, or a kernel, optimized for your
machine
in a way no binary
can match.). I have Mplayer-1.0pre7 installed via
by compiling and xine with rpm. I do know how to
work
out dependencies and I can resolve most of the
problems but they say that a compiled kernel will
work
better than the stock kernel provided by Fedora on
our
machines. I also want to learn more about linux and
compiling the kernel.
Then, too, there's the matter of wanting to load
into the kernel certain
non-standard modules, and even to run the kernel
in
four-stack mode for
some purposes. (NDISwrapper springs to mind.) I'd
like a quick how-to on
that alone, or at least a link to some clear
instructions.
Temlakos
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Thanks to Rick, Temlakos, Kam and Robert for their
kind help, I am now running 2.6.11.7. I never thought
I could do it. Thanks for helping out.
[student@rio ~]$ uname -r
2.6.11.7
[student@rio ~]$
That's what the list is for, Antonio. Glad to hear you got it working.
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