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Build your own custom Linux Kernel for SliTaz
Prepare your system
Install the slitaz-toolchain meta package. This package contains the required base files.
binutils
linux-headers
glibc-dev
gcc
make
# tazpkg get-install slitaz-toolchain# tazpkg get-install slitaz-toolchain
Install the packages required to configure and compile the kernel sources.
ncurses-dev
perl
# tazpkg get-install ncurses-dev # tazpkg get-install perl
SliTaz provides a linux-source package. The kernel source tree will be downloaded from the mirror, installed to the /usr/src/linux-<VERSION> directory, and patched for SliTaz..
# tazpkg get-install linux-source # /usr/bin/get-linux-source # ls -l /usr/src lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jul 21 21:27 linux -> linux-2.6.25.5-slitaz drwxrwxr-x 23 root root 4096 Jul 21 22:41 linux-2.6.25.5-slitaz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 48589640 Jul 21 21:28 linux-2.6.25.5.tar.bz2
Configure and Compile
The Linux kernel source tree is now ready to configure and compile.
Go to the directory that contains the kernel source tree.
# cd /usr/src/linux
Prepare the build from the default configuration.
# make oldconfig && make prepare
Modify the kernel configuration to your needs, and compile.
The menuconfig allows you to customise the kernel, which is built into the bzImage file. Any modules are built and then installed in to the /usr/include directory. You should then copy the kernel itself to the /boot directory.
# make menuconfig # make # make modules # make modules_install # cp arch/x86/boot/bzImage /boot
Configure the boot-loader (optional)
# leafpad /boot/grub/menu.lst
Add the new kernel to the list
# My kernel: title SliTaz GNU/Linux (cooking) (Kernel <VERSION>) root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/sda2
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To modify the kernel configuration:
$ cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.37
$ make menuconfig
To build the kernel and the modules:
$ cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.37
$ make bzImage && make modules
To install the new kernel and the modules:
$ make modules_install
$ cp -a arch/x86/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.37-slitaz
To make a Slitaz package with the new kernel and the modules:
$ make tazpkg |
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