On 5/9/05, Preston Crawford me@prestoncrawford.com wrote:
Is this possible. I did my first one yesterday in order to get my iPod mini to work with the EL kernel. It worked well. Everything went smoothly, but I don't like what I named it. So I'd like to take one more shot at it. If I do, is there a way to remove the old one cleanly? Modules and everything.
Sure, it's easy. Just remove the /lib/modules/KERNEL_NAME directory, and then the kernel that you created under /boot. Also remove the initrd in /boot you created (if you created one). You don't HAVE to remove all this though -- it won't cause any problems being there (other than extra crap on your system). You should also remove the kernel entry in /boot/grub/grub.conf.
Also, if do recompile the kernel again, do I need fresh source, or can I just do a make clean, rename the setting in the Makefile for the name, then go through all the usual steps.
You recompile from the same source. Before I compile a fresh kernel I usually do a "make distclean && make mrproper". That will clean up the sources.
-Ryan