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Re: didn't do it quite right...



tom wrote:

> Howdy Guys,
>
> I just ugraded from 2.0.36 to 2.2.18  (hey, I'm slow...) on a
> potato system.  I did not do it the "debian way", however, and
> I still appear to have 2.0.36 installed, and running top give
> me ye olde "warning: /boot/System.map has an incorrect kernel
> version"
>
> I looked at lilo.conf, made one change.  Here are all the steps I
> took:
>
> 1. unpack source to /usr/src/linux/*
> 2. cd /usr/src/linux/
> 3. make menuconfig
> 4. make dep
> 5. make clean
> 6. make bzImage
> 7. make modules
> 8. make modules_install

Not sure if this is the *right* way, but it seems to work for me. I just do the
following in place of your steps 9-15

9. depmod -a
10 make bzlilo

and just to play it safe ;-)

11 make bzdisk

John

>
> 9. mv System.map /boot/System.map
> 10. cd /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/
> 11. mv bzImage /boot/
> 12. cd /boot
> 13. cp vmlinuz vmlinuz.safe
> 14. cp bzImage vmlinuz
> 15. lilo

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