[Wolves] Kernel 2.6 compile

[Aquarius]

David Goodwin spoo'd forth:
> Matthew Revell wrote:
>> Howdy all,
>> 
>> I'm gonna attempt a kernel 2.6 compile on my Athlon Debian machine, this 
>> weekend. Does anyone have any general tips?
>> 
> 
> Have you compiled kernels before? (e.g. 2.4.XX?)
> 
> I'd suggest you get a working config from somewhere (perhaps the debian 
> kernel source includes it?). Some distros have it in either /boot or 
> /proc/config.gz (SuSE at least). Not sure about Debian.

It does. Look in /boot and you will find the .config for each installed
kernel.

I would recommend installing grub *first*, before building your new
kernel, and then read /usr/share/doc/grub/README.Debian.gz, which
tells you how to set up automatic updates -- when you install a new
kernel, it will then be automatically added to your boot menu (the
point being that the *old* kernel will still be there, so if the
new one doesn't boot then you can go back to the old one).

Aq.

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