My first self-compiled kernel..

I woke up in morning and just found out about this announcement..

http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/24/105

then.. first few minute looking for the link to download the new kernel

went to main page http://lkml.org/

there top-right menu got link to latest kernel

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.28.tar.bz2

download that image (52 Mb) .. took few hour on my 3G..

then..

cd /usr/src/kernels<br />
tar xjfv  /home/namran/Desktop/linux-2.6.28.tar.bz2<br />

this will extract the content into /usr/src/kernels/linux-2.6.28

cd linux-2.6.28<br />
make menuconfig<br />

the menu will popup.. then select whatever driver that would like to add. save.

start compiling..

make<br />


this one took me more than 1-hour.. hahaha.. went out for lunch then get back to see it ready..

then..
<br />
make bzImage<br />
make modules<br />
make modules_install<br />

then.. prepare to be install into grub.

mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.6.28-namran 2.6.28<br />

this shall create the initrd-2.6.28-namran in /boot folder.
<br />
cp /usr/src/kernels/linux-2.6.28/arch/i386/bzImage /boot/bzImage-2.6.28-namran<br />
cp /usr/src/kernels/linux-2.6.28/System.map /boot/System.map-2.6.28<br />

edit /etc/grub.conf to reflect the new kernel.

default=0<br />
timeout=5<br />
splashimage=(hd0,4)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz<br />
hiddenmenu<br />
title Namran (2.6.28)<br />
root (hd0,4)<br />
kernel /boot/bzImage-2.6.28-namran ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet vga=791 crashkernel=128M@16M 3<br />
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.28-namran<br />

..

this one i put one initlevel 3 first.. as don’t want to messed up with nvidia card..

reboot.. and wait..

if everthing goes fine..  it will boot to level 3.. with login prompt..

here.. just to test the new kernel..

login as root

<br />
mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /root/X11/xorg.conf.25dec2008<br />

then run a fresh..

<br />
system-config-display<br />

select the generic LCD 1440×900

choose resolution 1440×900. save

then..

as normal user..

<br />
startx<br />

should start X server and all the gnome session thingy.

… seem fine..

except i forgot to include ntfs support .. so can’t mount ntfs partition.. the rest just fine.. including the bluetooth, sound ..

yay !