I think you also need to do a make bzimage and copy bzimage into /vmlinuz. Not sure if it works the same way for 2.6.5 though...its been a while since I last compiled a kernel.I had done it this way for upgrading from 2.0 to the 2.2.* kernel back in the days when I had RH7. thanks RS --- rakesh <raklfs@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > > My Hardware : > A PC with AMD k5 processor .Hard disk > capacity 6GB > > Goal : > My Goal is to intall 2.6.5 in my PC. > > What I have and done: > > a) I have redhat 7.3 installed in my PC with > boot loader as GRUB. > b) Downloaded kernel 2.6.5 from kernel.org > c) Extracted the src /usr/src/linux-2.6.5/ > d) Did make config. > e) Sucessfull build. > > What I have done in /boot directory : > > a) I copied the new config file ie > config-2.6.5 > b) I copied System.map-2.6.5 and made > System.map point to it. > c) Copied vmlinux-2.6.5 > d) In grub directory edited the menu.lst > file to include 2.6.5 without adding the initrd > image line. > > Now when I reboot two options are displayed > I selected my new kernel ie 2.6.5 saying that > vmlinuz is not found ies perfectly true . I dont > know how to make vmlinuz for the new kernel . Please > anyone can help me. > > Also please let me know the steps I am > following are right or wrong ? if I am missing any > please let me know what are they. > > Thanks > Rakesh > > > > > > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
