Hello:
I'had recomplied some kernels but I know that the internals of this
proceses are very cryptic for me. I'm trying to read all I can in the www
about kernel recompilation, but info available differs from site to site.
Some people usually compiles with make <config-mode>, make dep, make
bzImage, make modules, make modules_install and copy bzImage to boot. Some
others seems to be more accurate and make mrproper first of all, make
clean, depmod -a, etc...
With this info is not easy for me to learn the 'perfect' steps to
recompile and install a new kernel. I've made a list with a merge from this
sites to see what's the best way. Your suggestions will be very, very,
very, appreciated.
1 Decompress linux sources tarball under /usr/src
2 Make a soft link /usr/src/linux that points to the decompressed
tree.
3 If any patch will be installed use patch -p1
4 make mrproper ( clean )
5 Configure the kernel using make config, menuconfig or xconfig
6 ( mine ) backup .config to another name ;)
7 make dep ( to resolve dependencies )
8 make clean
9 make bzImage
10 make modules ( here seems to be people saying that's good to rm -rf
/lib/modules/<kernel-version> if we are recompiling )
11 make modules_install
12 depmod -a
13 backup /boot original image, System.map an /etc/modules.conf or
change names and modify lilo or grub properly. ( Me : What happens with
module-info ? )
14 Copy bzImage , System.map to /boot and modules.conf to /etc
15 Modify lilo or grub to use new kernel
16 Try to restart.
Any tips?
TIA
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