Welcome to the new location of Alien's Wiki, sharing a single dokuwiki install with the SlackDocs Wiki.

Welcome to Eric Hameleers (Alien BOB)'s Wiki pages.

If you want to support my work, please consider a small donation:

This is an old revision of the document!


Discussion on building Linux kernels

Feel free to comment on this Wiki page. Do you have suggestions to make it better? Critical remarks? Leave them here.

— Eric


Are you sure merging the xauth is neccecary? I tried it and had to step out for a minute. Gnome locked the screen automatically and since then X hasn't worked, and I get an error saying “error in locking authority file /home/name/.Xauthority” Not sure if this is a result of merging the .Xauthority file or not. But I have also never seen those commands used in any other FAQ I have used.

~David


Found typo: '… a X terminal…' / Should be: '… an X terminal…'

But did it really need six revisions of your feedback line to tell me this :-) That is what the [Preview] button is for…
— Eric

So sorry about that. When it comes to editing: can't help meself, mate :)


Spotted a formatting typo. Look under Modifying lilo.conf

The first code block in the section says:

label = linux read-only # Non-UMSDOS filesystems should be mounted read-only for checking

It should be two lines:

label = linux
read-only     # Non-UMSDOS filesystems should be mounted read-only for checking

Perhaps a rogue Return key didn't show up? It was probably taking some unwarranted holiday somewhere or other. It might even be slacking somewhere else on this site for all we know. Hey, in the ChangeLog recently Pat lost a '['. “It had fallen off my desk and ended up under a table”. That's always a pain.

Nice guide Eric. Thanks for the rest of your good work too. I appreciate you highlighting the point Linus made (the infamous /usr/src 'zombie' instructions), and the fact that it's a 'non-issue' with Slackware.

However I still think Linus has a point. If nothing else, juggling chainsaws when you're tired, and you've done it a million times before, could be hazardous to your health ;-)

- mjc -

Thanks for spotting this mjc, I fixed it. The kernel sources location is a hot topic on LQ nowadays.
— Eric


 Discussion on building Linux kernels ()
SlackDocs