> > On Ubuntu 10.10, you need to update /etc/default/grub and then use > > 'sudo update-grub' to update your configuration. > > > > I see, thanks for the info on grub2 guys! If the files were copied to > /boot it sounds like the original poster just needs to update grub. I > still don't understand how the files got copied tho, I always have to > dpkg them myself (not done at the make-kpkg stage) and grub is taken > care of then. On Ubuntu systems, just follow the following steps for building the new kernel images. Note: I build the kernel image as a ROOT, here. So, I did not use the SUDO. 1) Download the required kernel version TAR ball from the www.kernel.org and extract it in the /usr/src directory. 2) Change into the newly created directory. 3) Build the kernel with the following set of commands from /usr/src/linux directory. Here the linux is a link to the newly created directory. 4) Then run the following commands. # make mrproper # make clean # make menuconfig - Just exit from the GUI menu by pressing YES. # make prepare # make menuconfig - Do the modifications, whatever you want. # make clean # make bzImage (capital L letter in bzImage) # make modules # make modules_install # make install Then, build the initrd file with the following command from anywhere, however you need to copy the build initrd file explicitly to the /boot directory. # mkinitramfs -o initrd-img-kernel-version kernel-version Finally, update the grub with the following command from /boot directory and restart the system. By default it boots into the newly build kernel image. # update-grub For more information on Grub follow the link https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2 Thanks and Regards, Srinivas G _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
