Compiling kernel the Fedora's way
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett at verizon.net
Sun Feb 11 12:41:15 UTC 2007
On Sunday 11 February 2007 06:26, Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
>On 2/11/07, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 10:41:56 +0100, Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
>> > Is there any accurate guide on how to compile a Fedora kernel?
>>
>> How about:
>>
>> http://www.howtoforge.com/kernel_compilation_fedora
>
>Yeah, I followed this guide.
>
>The point is that I don't understand that message about grubby and why
>the new rpm kernel removed all my previous kernels (I had two more). I
>could understand that my kernel didn't boot if I did something wrong,
>but I don't understand why the installation deleted all of my linux
>entries.
>
>Cheers
Having been bit by this way back in the mists of the dawn of time, I have
yet to exec a 'make install' OR build an rpm out of installing a new
kernel since back in 2.2 days. I'm quite conversant with
editing /boot/grub/menu.lst or grub.conf, and my own 'makeit' script does
ALL the required bzImage copying and renaming step by step without ever
touching grub.conf. That is _MY_ job and its not open for discussion
here at the Heskett Ranchette.
So I haven't been bit by that little bit of extremely ill engineered
tom-foolery in the Makefile since.
I could post my script if anyone is interested. It also keeps a backup
copy of the kernel its replacing in case its a recompile of an existing
one, which makes error recovery quite easily done.
If one insisted that the kernel was part of the rpm database I suppose one
could try installing it by way of checkinstall, but that, for a project
as complex as the kernel, would be a long and painfull editing session
just to get something that you would then do "rpm -Uvh --dbonly
name-of_kernel-rpm". But to what avail? Any kernel version dependant
stuff you'd want to install would still barf anyway from a version
miss-match sure as God made little green apples.
--
Cheers, Gene
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