gentoo kernel upgrade problems

[Net Llama!]

On 12/19/2004 03:22 PM, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
> I am trying to upgrade my main desktop.  It is gentoo kernel 2.4.20-xfs 
> (yeah, I know, not real great).  I did an emerge and got the 2.6.9 
> kernel.  I changed the '/usr/src/linux' link to point to the new 
> directory and did:
> 
> # make mrproper
> # make xconfig
> # make
> # make modules_install
> 
> That spit out a vmlinux executable and a System.map that I copied to the 
> /boot directory.

You most likely want the compressed kernel binary (bzImage) not vmlinux.

Look in /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot

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