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Unfortunately the HOW-TO didn't say anything about what to do with the
zimage to test it once it was made. It explained how to install it with
LILO, but I'm using loadlin. Anyone have simple instructions on where to
go from here? This is my first kernel and I'm pretty new to Linux in
general. Thanks.

Steve

What I do is make sure you have a boot disk (in case the new kernel doesn't
work), compile the kernel.  go to your /boot directory the current kernel
should be named somthing like vmlinuz-2.0.34-0.6.  There should also be a
link to that file named vmlinuz.  At this point you can copy the new one
/boot/vmlinuz.new or somthing of that nature. recreate the link pointing to
the new kernel ie. 'ln -s vmlinuz-2.0.34-0.6 vmlinuz.new' be careful using
the ln command with the -fs (force option) if you reverse the names it
WILL erase the file you may want.  I would suggest removing the link first
then recreating it.  Now mount the dos partition, change to the directory
you have your current kernel in, copy the original kernel xxx.sav, copy the
new kernel to the directory.

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It's better to think twice and type once rather than type once and have to
think REAL hard to get back what you just lost.

Mike

Put the new kernel into the same directory as the old one (you can just mv
it there).  You can have lots of .bat files that each end with different
loadlin commands and thus invoke different kernel image files.

Quote:>Steve,

>What I do is make sure you have a boot disk (in case the new kernel doesn't
>work), compile the kernel.  go to your /boot directory the current kernel
>should be named somthing like vmlinuz-2.0.34-0.6.

Did you even notice that Steve said he's using loadlin?

Quote:>------------------------
>It's better to think twice and type once rather than type once and have to
>think REAL hard to get back what you just lost.