[ale] Kernel Compilation HELP HELP

Chris Ness cness at gloster.vivid.net
Fri Apr 10 17:16:27 EDT 1998


Heaton, William P wrote:
> 
> > 1)make mrproper
> > 2)make menuconfig
> > 3)make dep
> > 4)make clean
> > 5)make zImage
> > 6)make modules
>         7)make modules_install
> 
> Then, just to be sure, run lilo. Don't fool with editing lilo.conf.
> After this
> it should boot with no worries, assuming you configured it properly.

I edited /etc/lilo.conf to include a boot option to boot from
vmlinuz.old so that if there is a problem I can drop back to the last
working kernel (truthfully I also made a 'safe' boot to boot from a
vmlinuz.safe that I have kept in which everything worked as advertised
-- just in case. But then I'm paranoid)
-- 
Chris Ness
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