188089 – Compiling and installing the kernel

Bug 188089 - Compiling and installing the kernel

Summary: Compiling and installing the kernel

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 183346

Alias:	None

Product:	[OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Installation Handbook (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Docs Team

URL:	http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook...
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Reported:	2007-08-08 11:47 UTC by Mar Vaneke
Modified:	2007-08-08 12:00 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Mar Vaneke 2007-08-08 11:47:26 UTC

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

Comment 1 Jan Kundrát (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-08-08 12:00:56 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 183346 ***