On 10/12/2012 06:36 PM, Jim Rees wrote: > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Doing a kernel compile really isn't that bad. The only nasty piece is > getting the kernel configuration right, but you can just use the > distro config. It's much too big and contains everything, but it will > work, and gets you as similar a kernel as possible. Of course, Ubuntu > has made installing your own kernel stupidly complicated (you have to > build a package and install it using the package manager), but while > it's an annoying extra step or two (compared to just doing a "make > modules_install install"), it's not rocket surgery. > > I install kernels on Ubuntu every day of the week and twice on Sundays, and > never jump through their silly hoops. The only magic is making the > initramfs, if you use one. > > make install modules_install > update-initramfs -c -k 3.6.1 (or whatever) I thought "make install" is suppose to call a distro specific driver script to do exactly that initramfs thing. Some good sole should just fix it up on Broken ubuntu. I would but I don't use ubuntu I use Fedora. Just "which installkernel" usually /sbin/installkernel and fix in there, I think. > update-grub And that too, it's a new grub2 thing, right Cheers Boaz -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
