Basic guidelines to compiling the kernel
Fri, 10/7/2011

0. Install all the packages to compile the kernel
1. Download the Linux kernel source code.
2. Copy it to /usr/src
    mv linux-3.0.4.tar.bz2 /usr/src
3. Go to /usr/src and untar the source code
    cd /usr/src
    tar xvjf linux-3.0.4.tar.bz2
4. Go to the root of the source tree
    cd linux-3.0.4
5. Find your current Linux version
    uname -r
6. Copy the current configure file to the root of the source tree
    cp /boot/config-2.6.38-11-generic .config
    (skip this step if you want to configure the kernel yourself)
7. Configure Knerel
    make menuconfig
    (If you did step 6, you can load the configure file using load)
8. Compile the kernel and install (will take some time, go get a cup of coffee)
    make
    make install
    make modules_intall
9. Go to /boot and create initrd for your new kernel
    cd /boot
    Fedora: mkinitrd initrd-3.0.4.img 3.0.4 
    Debian: mkinitramfs -o initid.img-3.0.4 3.0.4
10. Update the grub menu
    If you have GRUB2 installed on your system, just execute this command:
    	update-grub2
    Otherwise, you have to modify the grub config file manually.
    Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst. Copy one of the old entries and modify it,
    so that it will point to the new kernel image and initrd.