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[electronics45]

Hi,
I've just finished patching the Xandros kernel, and now I'm supposed to reconfigure the kernel. Does anyone know how? Do I have to recompile the kernel afterwards?

Thanks for your help.
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[Chaotic Thought]

You might want to take a step back, and make sure the kernel compiles without patching. The thing is--sometimes patching the kernel causes the compile to fail. So if you have time (or want to potentially save time, depending on how you look at it), unpack the clean kernel sources and then compile it. If it works (or when it works), then you can move on to step 2 (patching the kernel, and making sure that works). Now... to your question:

Configuring the kernel is done before compiling it. Here are the usual steps to building the kernel:

1. Unpack kernel sources.
   
2. Configure kernel using make menuconfig or similar.
   
3. Build kernel using make.
   
4. Install the kernel by doing make modules_install and copying the kernel from ./arch/i386/boot/bzImage and ./System.map to your system's kernel images directory, and then updating your boot loader configuration (lilo).
   

I gave some detailed instructions in another post. Hopefully it is a good walkthrough. By the way, I instruct to use make oldconfig in this howto, but you may replace that step with make menuconfig if you want to configure the kernel manually.

How to Build a Kernel on Xandros
http://forums.xandros.com/viewtopic.php?p=96589#96589

[electronics45]

Thanks a lot for your help. Since I had already configured the kernel source, It was bit tricky following your more detailed guide, but I've got it all sorted out now.

thanks again.
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[Chaotic Thought]

If you've already configured the kernel, just skip the make menconfig or make oldconfig part. All it really does is create the .config file that's in the toplevel source directory.