kernel file
I am installing a software product. It is now telling me to make
a copy or link from my kernel file to /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-smp. How do I do that ??? |
Your kernel file is usually the one pointed by /boot/vmlinuz. I don't know if you use X or console... Using console:
cd /boot ls -l There will be something like vmlinuz -> vmlinux-2.2.20. You need to make a symlink to teh kernel you use, so it may be a symlink to vmlinuz. To make a symlink use ln -s vmlinux vmlinuz-2.2.16-smp The link is ready. NOTE: *-smp kernels are usually for machines with many processors. I'm not sure if it's important in your case, but just to let you know... |
Thank you very much. I was actually in Warsaw last year on vacation...
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Hey, in the case pointed by Mara you'll have a nested symlink (symlink to symlink, ...) if there is already an entry vmlinuz->vmlinuz-some.version, by creating the symlink prescribed above you'll get
vmlinuz-2.2.16-smp->vmlinuz vmlinuz->vmlinuz-2.2.20 hence you are making another symlink to 2.2.20 which you name 2.2.16-smp, you need to reverse it if you have new kernel and you want vmlinuz to point to your new kernel ln -sf /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-smp /boot/vmlinuz assuming after kernel compilation you put /usr/src/linux-kernel.version/arch/i386/boot/bzImage (or zImage) to /boot and renamed it to vmlinuz-2.2.16-smp Confused? P.S. And you can ignore everything I just said - I am sluppy on reading stuff :), go with Mara's suggestion :) |
Yeah, you kind of confused me, but thats not hard sometimes.
I went with Maras suggestion and it is working great.... Thank you, though. |
I told to make a symlink to symlink because it'll be automatically changed when the kernel is changed. It will be always a symlink to your current kernel.
NOTE: This may not work in case you change your kernel to 2.4.x. But with 2.2.x it should be OK. |
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