www.linuxexpert.ro

Tutorials

  • Home
  • BGP Tutorials
    • Remove private AS
  • cPanel Tutorials
    • Install ImageMagick on cPanel
    • Install Softaculous
  • Linux Tutorials
    • Auto-reboot Linux after kernel panic
    • Building a firewall with Iptables
    • Change array RAID 1 disk order
    • Configure ntfs-3g on Linux Slackware
    • DHCP Option Codes
    • DansGuardian with Squid and ClamAV
    • Fetchmail for Gmail accounts
    • Install Zend & APC PHP Optimizers
    • Install Atheros AR242x PCI Express Adapter
    • Install awstats with DirectAdmin
    • Install DBD::mysql via CPAN shell
    • Install DjbDNS on Ubuntu
    • Installing fail2ban on Centos 5
    • Install GoDaddy SSL Certificate
    • Install i386 packages under x86_64
    • Install Linux via USB flashdrive
    • Install ModSecurity2 on Apache2.0.x
    • Install Nginx on CentOS
    • Install webalizer with ispconfig
    • Install intel A/B/G/N wireless on linux
    • Kernel Upgrade
    • Mobile phone access via bluetooth
    • Optimize MySQL
    • Optimize Qmail
    • Optimize server load
    • Optimize and Tune Apache for performance
    • Optimize and Tune Nginx for performance
    • Perfect Mailserver on Debian
    • Pidgin "Now Playing" Status Message
    • PHP hardening
    • PHP hardening with Suhosin
    • PHP5 Support allong with PHP4
    • Previewing your site before making DNS changes
    • Proxy Auto Configuration
    • PXE boot install rescue
    • Setup awstats on CentOS
    • Setup EC2 Amazon L2TP IPSec VPN
    • Setup email piping with Qmail
    • Setup Exim with DKIM
    • Setup Exim smart relay with cPanel
    • Setup OpenVPN
    • Setup postfix on nonstandard port
    • Setup SS5 Socks Proxy
    • Setup vsftp with no shell access
    • Sendmail smart relay with gmail auth
    • Squid proxy NCSA authentication
    • Tcpdump filters
    • Upgrade PHP to 5.3 in Plesk 10
    • Useful regular expressions
    • X with [SiS] 771/671 VGA controller
  • Joomla Tutorials
    • Hardening Joomla
    • Module Positions
    • Remove Joomla description meta tag
  • Looking Glasses
  • Optimize Firefox
  • Security
    • Crack WiFi WEP passwords
    • Defend against UDP isc.org DNS query DDOS
    • Detect DDoS attack
    • Remove malware from web sites
    • Sniff SSL passwords with ettercap
    • Snort2BGP
    • Track Hackers
    • What Is My IP
  • Troubleshooting
    • Grub error no such disk
    • named dumping master file: tmp-XXXXXXXXXX: open: permission denied
    • Nginx 413 Request Entity Too Large
    • SSH conection closed by remote host
    • Troubleshooting sis190.c
  • Unix Tutorials
    • FreeBSD reset root password
    • Installing snort on OpenBSD
    • Unix Toolbox
  • Virtualization Tutorials
    • Convert VirtualBox image to VMWare
    • VMware SNMP Enable
  • VoIP Tutorials
    • Install Elastix
    • Qos for Asterisk

Who's Online

We have 21 guests and no members online

Most Read

  • Setup SS5 Socks Proxy
  • Install webalizer with ispconfig
  • Sniff SSL passwords with ettercap
  • __404__
  • Optimize and Tune Apache for performance

Products and Services

  • Home
  • Linux Products and Services
  • Buy VPN Account
  • Privacy Policy for Linuxexpert
  • Remove malware

Kernel Upgrade

  • Print
  • Email
Details
Parent Category: Tutorials
Published: 11 January 2009
Hits: 3375

 

This tutorial will show you how you can upgrade your kernel from a previous version to a new one and keep the previous settings.
If you are running the current version and you want to upgrade:
#cd /usr/src/linux-new
#make mrproper
#zcat /proc/config.gz > .config
or you can copy .config file from old kernel into the new one directory:
#cp /usr/src/linux/.config /usr/src/linux-new
#make oldconfig
The "make oldconfig" part will create a .config file based on how your running kernel is configured. You will be prompted for any new items when you are compiling newer kernel source. This allows you only change items you are interested in. In other words `make oldconfig` reads the .config file in the current directory and prompts you about any new changes to the kernel (ie if you want to add some of the new features).
If you want to run some fine tunnig settings run make menuconfig, and then you can go ahead with the normal kernel compilation:
# make
Install it:
#make modules_install
#cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz
Remove old kernel:
#rm -rf /usr/src/linux
#ln -sf /usr/src/linux-new /usr/src/linux
Cleaning:
# rm -rf /lib/modules/2.6.x-old
Don't forget to run lilo.

Note:

We use Hosting and VPS Hosting, from: www.star-host.org

We like and trust them.

Good prices, high security.

fShare
Tweet