3858 – How to recompile your kernel after installation.

Bug 3858 - How to recompile your kernel after installation.

Summary: How to recompile your kernel after installation.

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	[OLD] Docs-user
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Other (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Sherman Boyd (meekrob) (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2002-06-18 15:33 UTC by Lester Yee
Modified:	2002-06-19 17:21 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Lester Yee 2002-06-18 15:33:37 UTC

When I boot up my machine now after install there is nothing in the /boot dir. 
If I want to recompile my kernel again .. how do I do this w/o reinstalling?


thanks,

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2002-06-18 19:34:24 UTC

uhhh ... did you setup your fstab correctly ?
as for making a new kernel ...
just cd /usr/src/linux
make menuconfig (setup your kernel options here ...)
make clean dep bzImage modules modules_install
then you should have /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage
i'm assuming of course you are using x86 as your cpu
move the bzImage to wherever you want, and edit /boot/grub/menu.lst to actually 
boot it ...

Comment 2 Artur Brodowski 2002-06-19 05:45:53 UTC

/boot is not mounted automatically at boot, so you won't hurt your kernel by
accident. mount /boot as root, then update the kernel as in SpanKY posting.
and mark this FIXED ;)