[vox-tech] Re: my new kernel won't install

[Kevin Murakoshi]

I hope people haven't already asked these questions, but first what
lines are you using to build your kernel  (make menuconfig, make dep,
make clean, make bzImage, make modules, make modules_install , etc?)

If the kernel built successfully, you should check in
/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/(replace i386 with whatever architecture
you're building on) to see if the kernel is there (it should be
"bzImage"). If not then there's a problem building the kernel.

--kevin

Check out also the Kernel Rebuild Guide:
http://www.digitalhermit.com/linux/Kernel-Build-HOWTO.html



On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 16:29:34 -0700, Nick Schmalenberger
<nschmalenberger at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> list,
> Thank you for responding and explaining to me how LILO doesn't support
> filesystems and uses hardcoded (CHS, LBA?) addresses for things.
> However, I've got to stop asking questions that are peripheral to my
> problem. My problem is that my new kernel won't even be installed, which
> I assume "make install" is supposed to do. As part of "ls -l /" says: "
> lrwxr-xr-x   1 root root       13 Jul 23 01:16 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.6.7
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root   974333 Jun 15 04:14 vmlinuz-2.4.18
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root  1613594 Jul 23 01:16 vmlinuz-2.6.7
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root  1613594 Jul 23 01:14 vmlinuz-2.6.7.old
> lrwxr-xr-x   1 root root       17 Jul 23 01:16 vmlinuz.old ->
> vmlinuz-2.6.7.old
> "
> As you can see, my kernel image is dated July 23. I have done "make
> install" lots of times since then, with no effect. I got a new set of
> kernel sources last week, 2.6.8.1, and they compile okay, but as you can
> see the new image is not installed. What should I do? Thanks.
> Nick
> P.S. [OT] Again, and this isn't even peripheral but I really want to
> know, did anybody read my post on vox last Sunday? Also, Ken Bloom told
> me I shouldn't have more than one problem per message, but there are
> five or seven weird little problems with my system that bother me. After
> I get this kernel problem solved, would it be bad list etiquette for me
> to post some or all of these weird little problems in one message?
> Thanks.
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