Re: problem with linux booting

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Le Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:12:29 +0200,
"Thomas De Schampheleire" <patrickdepinguin@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit :

> > "You copied the wrong file. Which file exactly did you copy?"
> > after compliation one executable with the name vmlinux is created.
> > that i copied.
> 
> The file you probably need is inside
> arch/<your-architecture>/boot/
> 
> For example, on x86 computers, you need the image:
> arch/i386/boot/bzImage
> 
> This is the image you copy to /boot, and add the right line in
> /boot/grub/menu.lst for.

The "install" target of the main kernel Makefile does just that. So
I'd suggest to use:

 make install

to install the kernel, and

 make modules_install

to install the modules.

Have a look at

 make help

to understand what are the other available targets.

Sincerly,

Thomas
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