[TriLUG] Re: Build A Kernel (tangential)
Jason Faulkner
jasonlf at gmail.com
Mon May 23 18:00:58 EDT 2005
> - Do I still need to copy the System.map file into /boot?
Only required if you run lilo, according to most things I've read.
> - Do I still need to make an initial ram disk?
For 2.4 or 2.6, no initrd is needed if you have drivers for all
critical hardware/your root fs in the kernel. That's the route I
usually go.
> - Do I still need to update the grub.conf file to list the new kernel
> and initrd file?
make install is "supposed" to do this for you, but I still check it by hand
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