On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 18:39, Steve Holdoway wrote:
> Michael JasonSmith wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 17:47, Dale Anderson wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Being that you didnt give any info re what exactly you did to upgrade 
> >>the kernel on the formentioned OS it is rather hard for anyone to give 
> >>advise in correcting the issue .
> >>    
> >>
> >I wasn't really looking for advice :) I was venting and it is now
> >corrected! However, you make a good point. The upgrade path consisted of
> >     tar xfj…
> >        make menuconfig
> >        …
> >        make modules
> >        make modules_install
> >        make bzImage
> >        make install
> >A prior incantation used "make pkg-rpm" but that caused more problems
> >that it was worth by removing my old kernel so I had not backup!
> >(Stupid… operating system.)
> >
> >  
> >
> no, no, no! That's for a 2.4.x kernel.
> 
> For 2.6.x,
> 
> 1. copy the .config across from the working kernel source
> 2. make menuconfig
> 3. make

well of course the two of you are doing the same thing, so "no no no!"
is hardly correct.

in 2.6 make help tells you a lot.

especially that make all makes bzImage, modules and vmlinuz

no parameter makes all

so modules_install is needed in either case.

install uses the script or program in ~/bin/installkernel or
/sbin/installkernel. I personally prefer to install the bzImage by hand.


> 
> BTW... you don't use nVidia drivers, do you? I tried the 2.6.9-pre4 
> kernel with version 6111, and it wouldn't build.
> 
> Steve

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