Step by Step Rebuilding Kernel on Ubuntu Breezy 5.10

Sometimes, we need to configure our own kernel to fulfill our need. Below are step by step on rebuilding kernel on Ubuntu Breezy 5.10

(1) Make sure you have build-essential, bin86, and kernel-package package installed on your system. If no, please install with this command

apt-get install build-essential bin86 kernel-package

(2) Make sure you have development package libncurses-dev installed on your system. If no, please install with this command

apt-get install libncurses-dev

(3) Make sure you have package linux-tree installed on your system. If no, please install with this command

apt-get install linux-tree-2.6.8.1

(4) Go to the /usr/src directory

cd /usr/src

(5) Extract your linux source

tar jxf linux-source-2.6.8.1.tar.bz2

(6) Create soft link

ln -s linux-source-2.6.8.1 linux

(7) Go to /usr/src/linux directory

cd /usr/src/linux

(8) Copy config file

cp /boot/config-2.6.8.1-3-688 .config

(9) Make oldconfig with this command

make oldconfig

(10) Make kpkg clean with this command

make-kpkg clean

(11) Edit Makefile and suit with your needs

vi Makefile

(12) Make package installer with this command

make-kpkg --initrd --stem linux-revision=n3120 kernel_image

(13) Up one level directory with this command

cd ..

(14) Install a new package installer with this command

dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.8.1_n3120_i386.deb

(15) Ok. Now everything done. Reboot your machine and use your new configured kernel