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<H1>INSTALLKERNEL</H1>
Section: Maintenance Commands (8)<BR>Updated: 7 Jan 2001<BR><A HREF="#index">Index</A>
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<H2>NAME</H2>
installkernel - install a new kernel image
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<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2>
<B>installkernel </B><I>version zImage System.map [directory]</I>
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<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2>
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<B>installkernel</B>
installs a new kernel image onto the system from the Linux source
tree. It is called by the Linux kernel makefiles when
<B>make install</B>
is invoked there.
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The new kernel is installed into
<I>{directory}/vmlinuz-{version}</I>.
If a symbolic link
<I>{directory}/vmlinuz</I>
already exists, it is refreshed by making a link from
<I>{directory}/vmlinuz</I>
to the new kernel, and the previously installed kernel is available as
<I>{directory}/vmlinuz.old</I>.
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<H2>BUGS</H2>
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.
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