On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 12:36:21PM +0530, Sandeepa Prabhu wrote: > On 2 January 2014 17:46, Richard W.M. Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 05:38:49PM +0530, Sandeepa Prabhu wrote: > >> Ok, so cross-compiling would work for me, how do I install the built > >> kernel image (EFI version) on the disk image, is it just copying > >> vmlinux onto /boot/vmlinux-***? > > > > I'm bound to say .. libguestfs? eg. virt-copy-in etc. > Hi Rich, > > Thanks, can do scp between fc19 and Ubuntu host. Sorry I did not ask > the precise question, my question was "is it enough just to copy > cross-compiled zImage file as /boot/vmlinuz-*** or the target fs, or > need to do something more(I am not much educated on UEFI so asking). > i.e. If we build kernel on redhat machine do "make install", what > exactly is done there, what images would get copied? My intention is > to run systemtap and run kprobe tests on the newly built kernel(s).
You'd want to copy the modules too, ie. /lib/modules/<version> In general copying kernels around is more troublesome than it should be ... I'd like to see modules compiled into a single file for this reason: http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2013/12/07/half-baked-ideas-kernel-modules-in-a-file/#content Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org _______________________________________________ arm mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
