[Klug-general] re-compiling the kernel

MacGyveR macgyver at thedumbterminal.co.uk
Tue Nov 15 21:29:28 GMT 2005


On Tuesday 15 Nov 2005 20:02, Kevin Groves wrote:
> George Prowse wrote:
> > 'make make modules_install' or 'make && make modules_install'?
>
> I've always done:
>
> make bzImage modules modules_install
>
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with 2.6 the preferred method is

make mrproper
make config/menuconfig/xconfig
make
make modules_install
make install

I prefer to to the last stage manually as i care about my lilo config.

ps.

just spent about 10 hours compiling a 2.6 kernel on a p133 with 16mb of ram 
(30mb swap), great fun.

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