Is it needed to reinstall custom kernel every time, after rebuilding?

Amirali Shambayati amirali.shambayati at gmail.com
Thu Aug 18 12:54:00 EDT 2011


I decided, to first "make all" kernel package and using "dbkg" to
reinstall .deb files every time.
Could it be right?
(re-note: I want to build and install custom kernel for several times!)

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Amirali Shambayati
<amirali.shambayati at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Last time, I emailed to linux-kernel and kernenewbies mailing-lists
> about how to speed up kernel compilation. I received very useful peace
> of advice about using "ccache". Now I want to modify and compile a
> unique custom kernel several times.
> I used https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Kernel/Compile to compile
> custom kernel. This tutorial uses "kpkg" command to build kernel and
> it produces two .deb files: "linux-image" and "linux-header" as
> result.
> So for the first time I followed this tutorial.
> For next times, according to to experts' advice, I use "make all" in
> custom kernel root directory to rebuild kernel. I am not sure that it
> would be enough to use changed kernel after rebooting. As I asked from
> some experts, It is also required to install kernel again, but they
> were not familiar with "kpkg" and "dbkg",... commands for kernel
> installation.
> Should I use "dbkg" command after every time I rebuild kernel, for
> re-installation?
> If anybody is familiar with these method of kernel installation,
> please help me. It is very urgent, because it is related to my B.S.
> thesis :P
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> --
> Amirali Shambayati
> Bachelor Student
> Computer Engineering Department
> Sharif University of Technology
> Tehran, Iran
>



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Amirali Shambayati
Bachelor Student
Computer Engineering Department
Sharif University of Technology
Tehran, Iran



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