August 2018
Intermediate to advanced
482 pages
12h 44m
English
Once the kernel is configured and compiled, it can be installed on the system. The first command will copy the modules to a sub-directory of /lib/modules. The second command executes /sbin/installkernel. Also, the new kernel will be installed into /boot/vmlinuz-{version}. While doing this, if a symbolic link already exists for /boot/vmlinuz, it will get refreshed by linking /boot/vmlinuz to the new kernel. And the previously installed kernel will be available as /boot/vmlinuz.old. The same will happen for the config and System.map files. Once everything is done, we can reboot the system to boot from the new kernel:

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