installkernel
install a new kernel image
Synopsis
installkernel
version zImage System.map [directory]
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description
installkernel
installs a new kernel image onto the system from the Linux
source tree. It is called by the Linux kernel makefiles when
make install is invoked there.
The new kernel
is installed into {directory}/vmlinuz-{version}. If a
symbolic link {directory}/vmlinuz already exists, it
is refreshed by making a link from
{directory}/vmlinuz to the new kernel, and the
previously installed kernel is available as
{directory}/vmlinuz.old.
bugs
installkernel
resides in /sbin only because the Linux kernel makefiles
call it from there. It should really be in /usr/sbin. It
isn’t needed to boot a system.