[Techtalk] the finer points of kernel customization

[Carla Schroder]

On Monday 22 March 2004 8:21 pm, Carla Schroder wrote:
Wups forgot the most important step!
> 
> -get new sources
> -apply any patches
> -backup config-2.4.x
> -make mrproper
> -edit the new makefile, to give it my choice of EXTRAVERSION=wotever
> -make oldconfig
> -make dep
> -make clean
   $make bzImage  <=== build the kernel image
> -make modules_install 
> -make install
> -edit bootloader, have fun

and if you build filesystems and boot devices into the kernel, no need to mess 
with mkinitrd, which sounds like a lovely thing to me. Why would you want 
those as modules in any case? they seem rather too fundamental to not be 
built into the kernel.

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