| Summary: | Compiling and installing the kernel | ||
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| Product: | [OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org | Reporter: | Mar Vaneke <marvaneke> |
| Component: | Installation Handbook | Assignee: | Docs Team <docs-team> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
| Severity: | enhancement | ||
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=7 | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 183346 *** |
With the lines: make && make modules_install cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/kernel-2.6.19-gentoo-r5 it compile the kernel and copy it to the directory /boot. It works, but when the novice will regenerate a new kernel after the installation, he often forget to cp the new kernel image to the directory /boot. It is more practice for the novice to use the lines : make && make modules modules_install install Since this command install automatically the compiled kernel in the directory /boot, and create a file vmlinuz which link to newly compiled kernel, and save the old version of the compiled kernel with the extension .old. It is also necessary to change the grub.conf file with the line : kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 Reproducible: Always