SYA710 Building a New Kernel

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Revision as of 08:02, 9 October 2008 by Selmys (talk | contribs) (New page: === Building a New Kernel === * download source from kernel.org ** wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.26.tar.bz2 * unpack source ** tar xvjf linux-2.6.26.tar.bz2 * ...)
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Building a New Kernel

  • download source from kernel.org
  • unpack source
    • tar xvjf linux-2.6.26.tar.bz2
  • create configuration (.config) file
    • cd linux-2.6.26
    • cp /proc/config.gz .
    • gzip -d config.gz
    • mv config .config
    • make oldconfig
  • customize your configuration
    • make menuconfig
  • compile kernel and modules
    • make
  • copy kernel image to /boot
    • cp arch/x86/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26
  • copy system map to /boot
    • cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.6.26
  • install the modules
    • make modules_install
  • create initial ram disk image
    • mkinitrd -k vmlinuz-2.6.26 -i initrd-2.6.26
  • update GRUB
    • vi /boot/grub/menu.lst
  • reboot
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