More Kernel 2.4 Q's

[Craig White]

boy - I am disappointed that I'm getting no traction on this. Most of the
questions aren't specific to Redhat or the new 2.4 kernel. Aren't there
people who are involved with compiling their own kernels on this list?  Are
my questions to confused to make it easy enough to answer even some of them?

Craig

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Craig
> White
> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 11:54 AM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: More Kernel 2.4 Q's
>
>
> Re: compiling 2.4 kernel / RH 7.1 but I don't know that it makes a
> difference.
>
> 1. Do I install kernel-headers-XXX.rpm & kernel-XXX-i586.rpm (or whatever
> for hardware) or do I have to also install kernel-i386.rpm also? I presume
> that when these are installed, they install themselves in the
> /usr/src tree.
>
> 2. Should I make a copy of the /usr/src tree to another tree and begin
> compiling from there so I don't affect kernel already installed?
>
> 3. Appears that one of the mistakes that I made was not editing
> the Makefile
> BEFORE I did make bzImage. Will doing this automatically create a second
> entry in lilo so that I have a means to go back to my original boot-kernel
> if I screw up (and I will screw up).
>
> 4. If I want to wipe out the process and start all over, can I
> simply rm -fr
> /usr/src contents and reinstall kernel-headers et al. as in
> Question 1 to go
> back to ground zero?
>
> 5. Had problems with modularized kernels...tho I had selected modularized
> kernels in make menuconfig, my make modules process would error on those
> options I had selected "M" instead of "*" in the make menuconfig. Any clue
> where I went wrong here?
>
> 6. My process was
>  - make menuconfig
>  - make dep
>  - make clean
>    (apparently I should have changed the "VERSION" here in the Makefile)
>  - make bzImage
>  - make modules
>  - make modules_install
>
>  and finally
>
>  - make install
>
>  run lilo (though it seemed that make install did that).
>
> Is am missing any steps here?
>
> 7. Seemed that because I didn't change the "VERSION" in the Makefile, my
> modules were hosed when I tried to go back to boot original
> kernel/boot. Is
> there some safeguard to protect the modules so I can boot from either or
> should that occur normally?
>
> 8. If I just want to recompile kernel as originally shipped by RedHat but
> with one or two alterations (like my desire to add ipmasqadm to ipchains
> functionality), will my adding the ipmasqadm source to the
> /usr/src tree and
> running make menuconfig take it's options from RedHat's original
> distribution choices or does make menuconfig start up with it's
> own defaults
> and I am left to my own devices to know exactly what I want?
>
> Thanks in advance to anyone who wants to enlighten some the of the dark
> areas of my knowledge base.
>
> Craig