Kernel Compiling

Quick Start

These steps assume that lilo is your boot manager. If you are using a boot manager other than lilo alter steps 14 and 15 appropriately.

If you have downloaded the sources from www.kernel.org, decompress the file in /usr/src. This will create a new directory called linux.
If you have downloaded the kernel source as an rpm from your distro, install the rpm as directed.

Change directories to your new kernel sources: cd /usr/src/linux
Run your desired config: make xconfig, make menuconfig, make config, make oldconfig
make clean
make dep
make bzImage or make zImage
make modules
make modules_install
cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot (NOTE: i386 presupposes this is your architecture)
cp /boot/System.map /boot/System.map.old
cp arch/i386/boot/System.map /boot (NOTE: i386 presupposes this is your architecture)
cp .config /boot/config
cd /lib/modules/newmodulesdir The modules directory will be named after your kernel version
depmod -a
Edit /etc/lilo.conf and ADD your new kernel to the images section, do not replace your old, working image
run /sbin/lilo
reboot

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