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Check that kernel-package is installed to be able to build the Linux kernel related Debian packages:
$ dpkg -l |
grep kernel-package
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kernel-package 11.001
A
utility
for
building
Linux kernel related Debian pac
If the previous command does not show the installation, get the package:
$ sudo apt-get install kernel-package
???? Install qt3 to be able to "make xconfig"
Make a backup of the source directory to be able to go back to a clean version if one of the following actions fail.
Go into the source directory:
$ cd /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.22
If it is needed to configure the new kernel from the current kernel configuration, copy the configuration into the source directory:
$ sudo cp /boot/config-`uname -r` .config
Optionally, add the patches and any other modifications into the source tree.
Then, configure the kernel:
$ sudo make oldconfig
$ sudo make menuconfig
Or if libqt3 is installed:
$ sudo make
xconfig
This brings up the kernel configuration menu. Go to "Load an Alternate Configuration File" and choose the .config file just modified:
??? screen shot of menu ???Run a make-kpkg clean after configuring the kernel using make (x|menu)?config, since that creates the file include/linux/version.h without the append_to_version data. This file won’t be updated by the make-kpkg run (make-kpkg creates version.h if it doesn’t exist, but doesn’t touch if exists), so the final kernel will not have the append_to_version data in its version number and it shall look for the modules and symbols in all the wrong places. So, clean up the subtree:
$ sudo make-kpkg clean
Launch the build of the kernel with make-kpkg command.
The --initrd
option will build a kernel loading with an initial ramdisk.
The --append-to-version
option specifies an extra version number. Here we choose -tipc.
The kernel_image
target produces a Debian package of the Linux kernel source image and
any modules configured in the kernel configuration file .config.
The kernel_headers
target produces a Debian package containing the header files included
in the Linux kernel.
$ sudo make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=-tipc kernel_image kernel_headers modules_image
After --append-to-version, you can write any string that helps you identify the kernel, but it must begin with a minus (-) and must not contain whitespace.
The compilation ends with two debian packages in /usr/src:
$ ls -l /usr/src
[...]
-rw-r--r-- 1 root src 8593764
2008-02-01 17:03
linux-headers-2.6.22.9-tipc_2.6.22.9-tipc-10.00.Custom_i386.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root src 215398422 2008-02-01 16:57
linux-image-2.6.22.9-tipc_2.6.22.9-tipc-10.00.Custom_i386.deb
[...]
$
cd /usr/src
$ sudo dpkg -i
linux-headers-2.6.22.9-tipc_2.6.22.9-tipc-10.00.Custom_i386.deb
$ sudo dpkg
-i linux-image-2.6.22.9-tipc_2.6.22.9-tipc-10.00.Custom_i386.deb
Verify the installation:
$ dpkg -l |
grep linux-image
[...]
ii
linux-image-2.6.22.9-tipc
2.6.22.9-tipc-10.00.Custom
Linux
kernel
binary
image
for version 2.6.22.9-tipc
[...]
Two stanzas have been added to /boot/grub/menu.lst:
$ cat
/boot/grub/menu.lst
[...]
title
Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22.9-tipc
root
(hd0,0)
kernel
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.9-tipc
root=UUID=40e71a91-f1fc-4e08-a8ac-ddf0497dbc44 ro quiet splash
initrd
/boot/initrd.img-2.6.22.9-tipc
quiet
title
Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22.9-tipc (recovery mode)
root
(hd0,0)
kernel
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.9-tipc
root=UUID=40e71a91-f1fc-4e08-a8ac-ddf0497dbc44 ro single
initrd
/boot/initrd.img-2.6.22.9-tipc
[...]
$ uname -r
If the system doesn't start, restart it and select another kernel by typing ESC upon this messages:
press ESC to enter the GRUB menu:
Go to this page if you want to uninstalled your newly created kernel.