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pertonn
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 Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2023 8:06 am Post subject: Building kernel and recompile? |
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I understand how to build a kernel but lets say you forgot something in kernel that you need.
Best approach?
I was thinking of
make mrproper
cp /boot/config-version /usr/src/linux/.config
or this not necessary?
is this correct approach? what about modules? lets say you want to remove a module from kernel, do you need to delete it from /lib/modules/kernel-version first? |
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rfx
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| Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2023 9:28 am Post subject: |
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The .config is stored in /usr/src/linux-6.1.46-gentoo/.config or whatever Version you use, you dont have to copy it again. When you change 1-2-3 Things and build the Kernel. Then after reboot you want to change more 2-3 things, the previous .config is still in /usr/src/linux-6.1.46-gentoo/
It is not a big deal. Just type:
| Code: | | 1) cd /usr/src/linux && make menuconfig |
Check your stuff, make your changes.
| Code: | | 2) make && make modules_install && make install |
When using initramfs you need additional steps. First rename the existing initramfs, then create a new one:
| Code: | | 3.1) mv /boot/initramfs-6.1.46-gentoo.img /boot/initramfs-6.1.46-gentoo.img.old |
| Code: | | 3.2) dracut --kver=6.1.46-gentoo |
now check your /boot/, you should have new config, initramfs, System.map & vmlinuz and everything (from your older stuff as e.g. vmlinuz-6.1.46-gentoo.old). When this has worked, you can tell grub to find the new stuff
| Code: | | grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg |
This was all the magic. Your system should work after reboot. if yes, you can cleanup old stuff from /boot/, all the *.old files and cleanup grub with a new:
| Code: | | grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg |
So you are on the right side that you can boot your system when you make some kernelchanges that your system can not boot anymore, you have the old versions. after the second grub-mkconfig.. you know that your system is working |
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pietinger
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| Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2023 9:31 am Post subject: Re: Building kernel and recompile? |
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pertonn,
Welcome to Gentoo Forums !
| pertonn wrote: | I understand how to build a kernel but lets say you forgot something in kernel that you need.
Best approach? [..] |
If you want change your existing kernel configuration (from a manual kernel configuration) there is only one approach:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Pietinger/Tutorials/Manual_kernel_configuration#Cheat_Sheets
This you have to do if you want ADD or REMOVE some options / modules.
| pertonn wrote: | | [...] what about modules? lets say you want to remove a module from kernel, do you need to delete it from /lib/modules/kernel-version first? |
No. This is handled by "make modules_install". |
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Goverp
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| Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2023 6:34 pm Post subject: Re: Building kernel and recompile? |
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| pertonn wrote: | I understand how to build a kernel but lets say you forgot something in kernel that you need.
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make mrproper
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Definite overkill. If you have a working config, and you haven't changed the kernel sources, you don't even need "make clean", just "make". Sorting what needs recompiling in such circumstances is the whole purpose of "make". I have never found "make mrproper" necessary.
I update my kernel source using "git pull" from the stable kernel tree. I have so far found I sometimes need "make clean" after a change to a new kernel release such as 6.4 to 6.5, so now I do it on each such change. For smaller changes (6.4.9 to 6.4.10) a simple "make" is enough.
If you update your kernel source using more mainstream Gentoo tools - say "emerge gentoo-sources", you may as well do "make clean" for a new source set, though it shouldn't make any difference, as the new set will already be clean.
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sublogic
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| Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2023 2:08 am Post subject: |
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| To what was said above I would only add: "make clean" if you upgraded your compiler since your last kernel build. (If you forget, you'll get an obscure error message about a missing file deep in the weeds of your compiler setup.) |
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