Re: moving up to 2.5 kernels

[Mike Chambers <mike netlyncs com>]

On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 11:42, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   

> just for anyone who needs all the details (step by step), here's
> what it takes to play with the latest 2.5 kernels (at least on 
> red hat 9).
> 
> 1) upgrade to the latest red hat rawhide versions of both the
>    modutils and mkinitrd RPMs.  you *need* the latest modutils RPM
>    to understand the 2.5 kernel, but that RPM is backward-compatible
>    if you want to reboot back to 2.4.  (when, oh when, is red hat
>    finally going to get a grip and have the URL rawhide.redhat.com
>    take one *directly* to the rawhide repository?  sigh.)
> 
> 2) get latest kernel tarball (2.5.73 at last glance) from www.kernel.org
>    or ftp.kernel.org, and unload it under /usr/src.  there is no need to
>    mess with symlinks, as the tarballs from kernel.org automatically 
>    unload into the appropriate directory name (linux-2.5.73).
> 
> 3) in order to be *really* up to date, grab the latest BK patch from
>    kernel.org, and patch.

In other words..

make mrproper
copy over config or use new one
make oldconfig/menuconfig/xconfig
make bzImage install modules modules_install
mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.5.73.img 2.5.73

You left out make dep, is that not required now?

Note: unless it changed in 2.5/2.6, make install does the copying for
you AND edits grub.conf as well.

-- 
Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY

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