Install Kernel 2.4.34

yannifan · 05-06-2007, 04:14 AM

Hi
I want to install kernel 2.4.34 on my PC running FC6. I did compile is by the foll stpes:
make menuconfig
make depend
make
make bzImage
make drivers
make modules
make modules_install

Now im stuck with how to add an entry to /boot and to grub
Pls help

Simon Bridge · 05-06-2007, 05:02 AM

Take a look at the /boot image files for the other kernels installed - now make the same thing for the 2.4 kernel.

Take a look at /boot/grub/grub.conf for the other kernels ... see?

Now what is your question?

yannifan · 05-06-2007, 09:54 AM

There is NO kernel image in /boot. Its in the directory in which i compiled(ie. bzImage).

How shld i proceed? Shdl i copy this to /boot or make a direct entry into grub.conf.

Other kernels have vmlinuz and initrd entries in grub.conf.

Is bzImage equivalent to vmlinuz? If soafter adding its entry to grub.conf, what entry shld i add for initrd?

Im trying to compile kernel 2.4.34 on Fedora Core 6

Simon Bridge · 05-09-2007, 12:08 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vmlinux

have you tried

make install

??

it may not work for 2.4 kernels... last time I did it I had to copy the bzImage over and run mkinitrd (man mkinitrd)

yannifan · 05-12-2007, 04:16 PM

Thanks a lot. It worked