[SATLUG] Stupid Question o' The Day...

[Jeff Edmonson]

: I'm not the kind of expert some people on this list are, but I had this
problem once, and (IIRC) I found out that it didn't work to just manually copy
the kernel image to the /boot partition or whatever.  I think that "make
install" on the Linux kernel uses a utility called "installkernel" or something
like that, and if you use that, it sets things up correctly.  CAVEAT: This could
be distro-specific or something too.  Like I said, I'm not exactly a hardened
sys admin.

I'm the same way, but here's how I do things, step by step (at least in SuSE,
but I think it works in other distros - thanks, Ed!)...

cd /usr/src/linux
make menuconfig
pick your options
make dep ; make clean
make bzImage
make modules
make modules_install

Me personally, I usually copy the current kernel to /boot/vmlinuz.orig and the
new kernel to /boot/vmlinuz

ie:
cp /boot/vmlinuz /boot/vmlinuz.orig

The specific question was, will Linux run with a kernel of greater than 1 meg...
I still don't know the answer to that question.

from /boot on my system,
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       964815 Jul  3 00:12 vmlinux.orig
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       946271 Jul  3 00:13 vmlinuz

and those are the largest files, there.

Regards,
-Jeff

then
cp /usr/src/linux/System.map /boot/System.map

then
cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz

then run lilo

then reboot