[SOLVED] Update kernel

sir89 · 11-10-2016, 07:23 AM

I'm trying to update the kernel 3.2 to 4.4.12 in debian distro.

I'm crosscompiling my kernel:
make ARCH=x86 myconfig
make ARCH=x86 -j4
make ARCH=x86 modules
make ARCH=x86 modules_install
make ARCH=x86 install

But when I reboot the system, the screen is black and the eth is not suported.

I can only use the new kernel in the recovery mod.

where can stay the problem?

sundialsvcs · 11-10-2016, 07:35 AM

You should be able to "update the kernel" for any distro just by applying the appropriate package. You should not have to re-compile anything, and you probably shouldn't. (Unless you know exactly what you are doing ... and, if I may say it, trying to say it both politely and respectfully, "you probably don't.")

My cordial advice to you is to find the kernel-update package for your distro, then apply it. Don't attempt to compile and configure the kernel from source-code on your own when you are using a binary-based distro.

273 · 11-10-2016, 07:48 AM

I second what sundialsvcs posted -- in compiling your own kernel you might be missing display drivers and the like (hard to tell exactly what when we don't know your hardware).
However, I don't see the kernel version you want on the Debian package website so if you need it you may have to compile yourself. IF you must compile yourself I recommend doing it "the Debian way" that way things take care of themselves a little more and you can easily remove the kernel in future.
My personal way of doing things is the following (changing versions to the one I want, obviously):

Code:

tar -xf linux-4.0-rc4.tar.xz 
cd linux-4.0-rc4/
cp /boot/config-$(uname -r) ./.config
make menuconfig
fakeroot make-kpkg -j 8 --initrd kernel_image kernel_headers

During the menuconfig step I enter teh string to append to the packages when they're made rather than doing so in the make-kpkg step as the linked site does.