Re: I want to upgrade my kernel but I couldn't

[Yaser Al-Jarbou <jarbouym at yahoo dot com>]

I extracted it in the /usr/src 
then, I created a symbolic link to point to the
linux-2.4.19 directory.

Do I have to do somthing in the /boot directory? the
image file and the system.map.

regard

--- Sayed Jaffer Al-Mosawi <yamyam at rocketmail dot com>
wrote:
> 
>  
>  Yaser Al-Jarbou wrote:
> Salam to all brothers
> 
> I want to upgarde my kernel which is 2.4.18 to the
> latest thing 2.4.19.
> 
> But every time I recompile my kernel, it crashed. I
> 
> Where do you extract the kernel sources and compile
> the kernel? it must be in /usr/src/linux
> 
> 
> don't know why?
> 
> I use the following command:
> 
> 1. make dep bzImage modules
> 
> 2. make modules_install
> 
> 3. cp bzimage to /boot/bzimage-2.4.19
> 
> 4. edit /etc/lilo.conf
> 
> 5. lilo
> 
> 6. init 6
> 
> I use Redhat 7.3, but when I refer to
> Kernel-install-HOWTO they mention the /usr/src/linux
> directory which is not found in Redhat. I found
> /usr/src/redhat.
> 
> What is problem here. and what is best procedure to
> upgrade the kernel without crash.
> 
> Best regards.
> 
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