On Fri, 17 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> according to the SMP-FAQ one must
>
> (a) define SMP=1 in the makefile
> (b) make modules
> (c) make modules_install
that is wrong. That only makes SMP-compatible modules. The old
kernel is untouched.
>
> BUT, according to my linux friend, to build a regular
> non-SMP kernel involves performing these steps:
>
> (a) make clean
> (b) make config
> (c) make depends
> (d) make zImage
> (e) copy zImage to /boot
> (f) modify the vmlinux softpointer to point to zImage
> (g) run lilo (with no arguments to install new kernel for boot
> availability)
make that make config;make dep; make clean; make install;
make modules;make modules-install
and you are ready to boot. that does the lilo install and
everything you need without all the extra steps...
>
> SO, where does the modules stuff come in ... should these steps
> come in after "make zImage" as in:
>
> (a) make clean
> (b) make config
> (c) make depends
> (d) make zImage
> (d1) make modules
> (d2) make modules_install
> (e) copy zImage to /boot
> (f) modify the vmlinux softpointer to point to zImage
> (g) run lilo (with no arguments to install new kernel for boot
> availability)
>
> thanks-
> shane
>
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