On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 03:02 am, many eyes noted that HaywireMac wrote: > Yes it is. If you've already installed Mandrake's precompiled > > > version of the kernel, then /boot/config-2.4.22-21mdk can also be > > used, ie, cp /boot/config-2.4.22-21mdk /usr/src/linux/.config > > Do you have to have a /boot partition to compile and use an alternate > kernel? I've read that installing a pre-compiled kernel, say, the > multimedia kernel, will automatically add a LILO entry so that you can > choose which kernel to boot into. What about manually compiled kernels? > Logic would dictate I would need to add an entry to LILO myself, but > would that work? and, where would I install a manually-compiled kernel > to?
I usually compile any new kernels in the /home/charlie directory where I can access and boot from them even after a newer version install, as I don't ever upgrade. In this way the Mandrake kernel that comes with the new version install is in the system and by manually adding the new kernel to /etc/lilo.conf and recently, trying to see if grub is really as good as I have heard, in /boot/grub/grub.conf, can also use to custom kernels which are located in /home/charlie/kernels. In fact I have never compiled a custom kernel in /usr/src Not a good idea to use /usr/src anyway, especially according to Linus Thorvald's, so I take his advice. Charlie. -- A steady wind scours the autumn moon >From a stagnant pool, >From the crystal spring every place pure now Just as it is. Why, then, does karma yet coil and bind? - Miao Yin (376-380) This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.1, Kmail v1.5 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0
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