Compiling The Kernel

In suse 10.3, after the last command, make install finished, is there anything more i have to do? can i just rebood and run the new kernel? i've checked broch's how to, but i've noticed there it said suse 9.2. Do i still have to add the new kernel to the bootloader?

after make install,
everything is ready: time to re-boot (if no errors earlier).
In the case of errors, don't worry, you should still have a choice of booting default suse kernels

oh...thx mate...now i'm running make modules_install...one question...When i was reading your howto, after configuring the xconfig, i executed #export CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" ...did that by mistake, copied mechanical...i imediately reopened xconfig to check if the cpu arhitecture was changed but it was still k8 as i selected it(i run on a sempron 3100 socket 754-googled it and they said it was k8 family). Does that afect the final result?


One more thing... "what does this thing do CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE and change value to 128000
save file (this is SuSE setting) ?"

just finished make install and rebooted, however, on the bootscreen, i don't have any new selectios. i remember in 10.2 after compiling the kernel i had 2 new options. How do i know it's booting in the customized kernel?

cd to /boot
check for new kernel and image
edit /boot/grub/menu.lst

copy default suse kernel entry and paste at the bottom
change kernel and image name to the ones corresponding to your custom kernel. Save exit reboot.
should work.

oh...thx mate...now i'm running make modules_install...one question...When i was reading your howto, after configuring the xconfig, i executed #export CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" ...did that by mistake, copied mechanical...i imediately reopened xconfig to check if the cpu arhitecture was changed but it was still k8 as i selected it(i run on a sempron 3100 socket 754-googled it and they said it was k8 family). Does that afect the final result?[/b]

you should be just fine if you are not running 64-bit OS, compiler should ignore this setting, otherwise it should optimize for 64-bit OS

One more thing... "what does this thing do CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE and change value to 128000
save file (this is SuSE setting) ?"[/b]

suse prefers more initial RAM, otherwise may complain but system will boot.

hope this will help

Thx a lot mate. Id did help...