Installation guide

Install or Update the Driver
(Installed Operating System)
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8 – Red Hat Linux Driver Installation
8. Copy the new kernel image to the boot directory. In the following example,
newsmp is the label for the kernel image.
# cd arch/i386/boot
# cp bzImage /boot/newsmp
9. Modify the /etc/lilo.conf file to make the boot loader load a new image. For
example:
image=/boot/newsmp
label=newsmp
root=/dev/hda5 (This is the location of the boot partition.)
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In the above example, the lines tell the Linux boot loader to load the new
kernel image called newsmp in /boot and mount the root partition using
device /dev/hda5.
10. Change default=linux or default=linux-up to default=newsmp.
11. Load the new boot configuration by typing the following:
# lilo
The lilo program echoes the names of loadable kernels to the screen. For
example:
newsmp *
12. Reboot the system.
13. At the boot prompt lilo, type the new label specified in the lilo.conf file. In
the example above, that name is newsmp.
lilo: newsmp
14. Type the following command to determine whether your custom kernel is
loaded:
# cat /proc/version