Kernel 2.6.9 issues...

Net Llama! netllama
Tue Oct 26 08:05:29 PDT 2004


On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Shawn Tayler wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 15:48:13 -0500 (EST) Net Llama!
> <netllama at linux-sxs.org> exclaimed:
>
> > Why are you doing 'make bzImage'?  That sort of thing died with the 2.4.x
> > kernel.  You're supposed to do:
> > make [menu|x|old|...]config
> > make
> > make modules_install
> >
> > that's it.
>
> Interesting point.  This is one of the things that has bothered me about
> 2.6.  Does 2.6 mean I have to manually copy the image file to my prefered
> kernel location and run lilo?  The make install never seemed to work for
> me, I always have to issue a "make bzlilo" after make to actually get a
> kernel.

Being the control freak that i am, i've always preferred to copy bzImage
and System.map over to /boot manually.

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