Re: Kernel compile the old way

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Ed wrote:
> I went to compile a vanilla kernel from kernel.org, and so read the 
> directions at the Debian site.  They seem to me to be needlessly 
> complicated.  Is there something in Debian which would prevent me from 
> compiling a kernel the good old fashioned way --
>
> make menuconfig
> make && make modules_install
> cp bzImage and System.map to /boot
> edit the grub menu
>
> -- and skip the initrd whatever?  And, if so, where does Debian load the 
> modules from, so I can edit that too?  It's not /etc/modules - only a 
> few there.
>
> Any advice appreciated.  Thanks.

make menuconfig
make-kpkg --revision 1 kernel_image

Does all of that and you need not do more but:

dpkg -i <the deb file created>
boot with the newly installed kernel