ok, got me a new kernel and some modules ... now what?

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Tue May 11 15:04:34 UTC 2010


On 05/11/2010 07:28 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Tue, 11 May 2010, Nils Kassube wrote:
> 
>> Not necessarily - hold down the shift key while grub starts. It
>> should give you the menu to select another kernel.
>>
>> And did you create an initrd image? That would usually be done with
>> a command like
>>
>> sudo update-initramfs -c -k <your-kernel-name>
>>
>> and then run update-grub again.
> 
>   and there we have it:
> 
> rpjday at lynx:~$ uname -a
> Linux lynx 2.6.34-rc7 #2 SMP Tue May 11 08:56:21 EDT 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> rpjday at lynx:~$
> 
>   i'll bet you're jealous.  yeah, you are.  you totally are.
> 

Not sure if you've seen these, but they may be helpful the next time around:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/GitKernelBuild
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/KernelGitGuide
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Kernel/Compile






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