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The Linux Kernel HOWTO

Al Dev (Alavoor Vasudevan) alavoor[AT]yahoo.com

1. Introduction

2. Quick Steps - Kernel Compile

• 2.1 Precautionary Preparations
• 2.2 Minor Upgrading of Kernel
• 2.3 For the Impatient
• 2.4 Building New Kernel - Explanation of Steps
• 2.5 Troubleshooting
• 2.6 Post Kernel Building

3. Loadable Modules

• 3.1 Installing the module utilities
• 3.2 Modules distributed with the kernel
• 3.3 Howto Install Just A Single Module ?

4. Cloning of Linux Kernels

5. Important questions and their answers

• 5.1 What does the kernel do, anyway?
• 5.2 Why would I want to upgrade my kernel?
• 5.3 What kind of hardware do the newer kernels support?
• 5.4 What version of gcc and libc do I need?
• 5.5 What's a loadable module?
• 5.6 How much disk space do I need?
• 5.7 How long does it take?

6. Patching the kernel

• 6.1 Applying a patch
• 6.2 If something goes wrong
• 6.3 Getting rid of the .orig files
• 6.4 Other patches

7. Tips and tricks

• 7.1 Redirecting output of the make or patch commands
• 7.2 Conditional kernel install
• 7.3 Kernel updates

8. Linux Kernel Textbooks and Documents

9. Kernel Files Information

• 9.1 vmlinuz and vmlinux
• 9.2 Bootloader Files
• 9.3 Message File
• 9.4 initrd.img
• 9.5 bzImage
• 9.6 module-info
• 9.7 config
• 9.8 System.map

10. Other Formats of this Document

• 10.1 Acrobat PDF format
• 10.2 Convert Linuxdoc to Docbook format
• 10.3 Convert to MS WinHelp format
• 10.4 Reading various formats

11. Appendix A - Creating initrd.img file

• 11.1 Using mkinitrd
• 11.2 Kernel Docs
• 11.3 Linuxman Book

12. Appendix B - Sample lilo.conf

13. Appendix C - GRUB Details And A Sample grub.conf

14. Appendix D - Post Kernel Building

15. Appendix E - Troubleshoot Common Mistakes

• 15.1 Compiles OK but does not boot
• 15.2 The System Hangs at LILO
• 15.3 No init found
• 15.4 Lot of Compile Errors
• 15.5 The 'depmod' gives "Unresolved symbol error messages"
• 15.6 Kernel Does Not Load Module - "Unresolved symbols" Error Messages
• 15.7 Kernel fails to load a module
• 15.8 Loadable modules
• 15.9 See Docs
• 15.10 make clean
• 15.11 Huge or slow kernels
• 15.12 The parallel port doesn't work/my printer doesn't work
• 15.13 Kernel doesn't compile
• 15.14 New version of the kernel doesn't seem to boot
• 15.15 You forgot to run LILO, or system doesn't boot at all
• 15.16 It says `warning: bdflush not running'
• 15.17 I can't get my IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM drive to work
• 15.18 It says weird things about obsolete routing requests
• 15.19 ``Not a compressed kernel Image file''
• 15.20 Problems with console terminal after upgrade to Linux v1.3.x
• 15.21 Can't seem to compile things after kernel upgrade
• 15.22 Increasing limits

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