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9 – Red Hat Linux Driver Installation
Install or Update the Driver (Installed Operating
System)
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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 on your
system.)
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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. Restart the system.
13. The new kernel image containing the qla2x00 driver is now the default boot
image.
14. Type the following command to determine whether your custom kernel is
loaded:
# cat /proc/version