On Sonntag 01 Februar 2009, Tom wrote: > >who needs an initramfs? > > Not me ;) > > But seeing this discussion, I've finally realised that I'm a dumbass. > For ages now I've been manually copying the kernel, the system.map and > the config around my filesystem. I've always wondered how on earth > people manage who do a lot of kernel testing without exploding due to > frustration. Now I know... :) > > But out of curiosity, and to recap: > > I can set the version, either in the kernel config with > CONFIG_LOCALVERSION > or by using a file > localversion > containing a version string?
I am using the first way, don't know the second. > > Does this then create a bzImage-versionstring file, and make install > copies this to /boot/kernel-versionstring (and system.map and .config > respectably)? vmlinuz-versionstring. > > Also how exactly do you then need to build the kernel. > Does a simple 'make' suffice? I use: make all modules_install install.
