On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 12:17 PM, Jurgens du Toit wrote: > > Could someone explain the use of > You didn't mention make "menuconfig" (or xconfig or config or oldconfig). You need to do one of these first to create/update your .config file and to create a few header files that are needed by the make bzImage. > make dep Creates files with "what files are included by a particular file" info. Used by make to know which files to recompile after you change a source file and try to build the kernel and modules again. These *.depend files are not removed by make clean. You have to make mrproper (Mr. Clean) to really start over. Beware, make mrproper also will remove your .config file which you worked so hard on, above. > make bzImage Creates a kernel image an compresses it with bzip2. > make modules Creates module files for drivers and things that were selected to be modules in the .config file, instead of built into the kernel. > make modules_install This lobs all of those module files into the directories where the new kernel will load them. This path is usually /lib/modules/`uname -r`/... This is usually followed by "make install" to lob the new kernel into the /boot filesystem. People who have been at this entirely too long have been seen doing this step by hand. > > please? > Find your distro's support documentation on the web and read the part about rebuilding the kernel. It will save you a lot of grief. Cheers, ---------------------------------------------------------------- Ed Vance edv (at) macrolink (dot) com Macrolink, Inc. 1500 N. Kellogg Dr Anaheim, CA 92807 ---------------------------------------------------------------- -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
