copying the kernel?
 

Hi,

My HDD is making lots of funny sounds so Im buying a new one and going to reinstall debian on it. Ive got a recompiled kernel on my current disk and was wondering if its possible to copy it to the new disk.

Thanks

Most likely it isn't going to work that way. In these cases usually when your compiling your kernel, you should save a configuration file, so next time you compile, you can just bring up the config file that is saved and use it that way. Copying a kernel from one machine to the next or similiar isn't going to work.

If it's the same machine, only a different disk, it may work (but it may not). What you need to do is to copy kernel image (from /boot or /, file vmlinuz-yourversion) and modules (/lib/modules/yourkernelversion). But it's a good idea to copy the configuration file (.config from kernel source) too.