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rob18767
Asked: 2018-10-03 06:21:56 +0800 CST

Has anyone built and installed a kernel for Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS?

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Has anyone:

Successfully downloaded the kernel source?

Successfully installed a built kernel without it crashing on startup?

For Ubuntu 18.04.1?

I managed to use synaptic to get 

linux-source version 4.15.0.36.39
linux-source-4.15.0 version 4.15.0.36.39

I copied the tarball linux-source-4.15.0.tar.bz2 to my home directory.

Unzipped it and made it using (after installing libncurses)

make menuconfig
copy .config to .config.bak
make mrproper
copy .config.bak to .config
make dep
make clean 
make bzImage
make modules
make modules_install 
make install

The kernel builds but after reset it tries to boot kernel 4.15.8 and fails because it cannot find a memory target.

Using the alternative method of downloading source apt-get source linux-image-$(uname -r) fails for this reason

As someone who maintains a driver 18.04.1 is a useless release thus far.

kernel make source

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I found the problem. The method of kernel compilation I used works for 16.04 LTS but not 18.04.

    To my shock and horror there is an intallation guide that details how to compile an 18.04 kernel

    Apart from the red face. Everything is fine and the installed kernel appears to boot and operate correctly.

    So I will look for the installation guide when 20.04 LTS arrives.

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