Re: question about patching my kernel

[David Sanders <debian@sandersweb.net>]

On Saturday 24 July 2004 07:46 am, Paul Akkermans wrote:
> uname -a
> Linux debian 2.2.20-idepci #1 Sat Apr 20 12:45:19 EST 2002 i686 unknown
>
> cat /etc/debian_version
> 3.0
The basic procedure.  Ask if you have any questions.
1. Download:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.7.tar.bz2
2. Untar the archive
tar xjvf linux-2.6.7.tar.bz2
3. Change directories into the archive
cd linux-2.6.7
4. Configure the kernel
make menuconfig
Note: you will be presented with lots of options.  Select the ones that match 
your computers hardware configuration.
5. Build the kernel
make
6. Become superuser and copy the relevent files to /boot
cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.6.7
cp .config /boot/config-2.6.7
cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.7
7. Copy any modules you built to /lib/modules
make modules_install
8. Point your bootloader to the new kernel image
For lilo you need to edit /etc/lilo.conf and add a stanza like:
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.7
        label=2.6.7
        alias=linux
9. Run lilo to update the boot record
lilo
10. Reboot and have fun
-- 
David Sanders