Can't find 2.6.1 kernel after compile

joemc91 · n00b Joined: 04 Feb 2004 Posts: 38

I've been working on getting my new Gentoo system up and running over the past day and have been having some trouble. Everything up to the kernel installation has completed succesfully, including the kernel compile. After I ran "make && make modules_install" as the install guide says to for the 2.6 kernel, I have no idea how to install it. The guide only tells how to install the 2.4 kernel. On a side note, I read somewhere I need to create a "/sys" folder, I hadn't done that when I ran "make". How do I install the 2.6 kernel now that it compiled succesfully?

idoneus · Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 3:33 pm Post subject:

just copy it from the same location that the 2.4 kernel resides (/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage if you are using a x86) to /boot.
add menu entry in your grub.conf
and finished.

/sys: just execute

mshack · n00b Joined: 21 Aug 2003 Posts: 30 Location: Poland

Hi joemc91,

the "/sys" directory is not necessary to compile the kernel.

When you type "make && make modules_install" it's like doing "make dep clean && make bzImage && make modules modules_install" for an 2.4.x kernel. So you still need to copy the newly compiled kernel into your boot directory.

joemc91 · n00b Joined: 04 Feb 2004 Posts: 38

Hello again. Turns out that the command "make && make modules_install" is failing. It is giving me the error "make[1]: *** [arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.s] Error 1". Any ideas on what this is?

mshack · n00b Joined: 21 Aug 2003 Posts: 30 Location: Poland

Have you emerged the development kernel or did you manually download and install the kernel and ?

joemc91 · n00b Joined: 04 Feb 2004 Posts: 38

I simply emerged the developement kernel. "emerge --usepkg gentoo-dev-sources"