nomit kalidhar wrote:
>
> I had installed Linux 7.0 kernel 2.2.16-22.
> Then i had done the following to upgrade the kernel to 2.4
>
> >cd /usr/src
> >tar -zxvf linux-2.4.0-test11.tar.gz
> >make dep ; make clean ; make bzlilo
>
> then rebooted the machine. All the operations performed above were done
> without showing any error messages.
> How can i verify whether the new kernel is installed.
uname can display the version and compile times for checking but it
sounds like it didn't work.
>From the above I think you've missed out several important steps. See the
Kernel HOWTO on your system file:/usr/doc/HOWTO/HTML/??/Kernel-HOWTO.html
or the current version at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html
also the README in the source tree.
# cd /usr/src
# tar -zxvf linux-2.4.0-test11.tar.gz
That's an old kernel these days.
I'd at least go for the 2.4.0 stable version, rather than a test build.
2.4.5 stable was released a couple of days ago.
Missed a "cd linux" :-)
You need to edit the Makefile and decide where to put the built objects
the default is / and you probably want /boot
Also check you're using kgcc under RH
Check the /etc/lilo.conf has a new entry of the kernel and a sane backup
entry in case the new one won't boot.
# make dep ; make clean ; make bzlilo
I'd do a "make mrproper" and "make menuconfig" here. For the main build
itself I'd use:
make dep bzImage modules modules_install install
but yours might be valid. Long time since I played with RH7
Pretty sure you don't need to upgrade any of the support utilities under
RH7 but check Documentation/Changes in the source tree to be sure.
binutils is the most common upgrade required on other systems.
HTH
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