Re: Kernel update for FC1?

[Kelson <kelson speed net>]

Karl Hudnut wrote:
> Does everyone know that the critical kernel patches have been available at 
> kernel.org for some time? I downloaded and ran the normal compile steps
> (make menuconfig, make bzImage, make modules, make modules_install) copied 
> the resulting image into the /boot dir, edited grub and rebooted. It 
> works. It's tedious though. What it buys you is your machine is patched 
> while waiting for the Fedora Legacy RPMs.

FYI, the kernel source now includes a "make install" target which 
encompasses make bzImage and automates the last step (copying the kernel 
image to /boot, building an initrd, updating grub).

Even better, if you copy the config file (the RPMs put it in 
/boot/config-versionname) to /path-to-your-kernel-source-dir/.config, 
you can run "make oldconfig" instead of "make menuconfig" -- this will 
keep all the old answers and only ask you about items that are new, 
which eliminates most of the tedium.

That simplifies things immensely:

cd /path/to/source
cp /boot/config-2.4.whatever .config
make oldconfig
make dep; make; make modules; make modules_install; make install

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Kelson Vibber
SpeedGate Communications <www.speed.net>