Saturday, March 17, 2007

Updating gentoo kernel

  1. cd /usr/src/
  2. execute command ln -sfn linux-2.6.xx.xx-rx linux
  3. cd linux
  4. make menuconfig (make appropriate changes in kernel)
  5. make && make modules_install
  6. cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/linux-2.6.XX.XX-rX
  7. vi /etc/lilo.config and make appropriate changes to get your new kernel executed
  8. run command lilo
  9. either run "module-rebuild rebuild" or "emerge nvidia-drivers" (make sure the following entry is in /etc/portage/package.mask if your using ge-force3 or                                                        >=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.9700

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