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Re: Compiling a new kernel



On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 07:12, Emanuele Boieri wrote:
> Hi everybody I hope that somenone can help me. I just followed
> precisely the instruction for compiling/installing a new kernel 
>(2.4.19). The previeous version was 2.2.
>   1.. tar xvjf "the kernel source"
>   2.. make menuconfig
>   3.. make dep
>   4.. make bzImage
>   5.. make modules
>   6.. make modules_install
> then I copied the new image in the boot location of the old 
> one /boot/bzImage.(I saved the old one). So I edit the lilo.conf and I
> specified where to load the new image. After rebooting (everything
> seemed to go fine) I launched the "kernelversion" command but the
> answer was 2.2!!! What happened??
> I want to precise that I've been using for one month and that
> I'm a very new user!
> 
> Thanks in advance to everyone with a good solution
> Emanuele 

Did you run lilo after changing lilo.conf so the boot sector was
updated?

G

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