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The kernel is the core of the operating system. It's primary functions are controlling execution of processes, handling memory management, providing a filesystem, and providing a portable interface through which programs may communicate with hardware.
 
The kernel is the core of the operating system. It's primary functions are controlling execution of processes, handling memory management, providing a filesystem, and providing a portable interface through which programs may communicate with hardware.
  
A [[kernel image]] is a compiled and usually compressed & self-extracting kernel (generally with the name of '''bzImage'''). In the linux distributions, it is copied from  /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/ to /boot .
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A [[kernel image]] is a compiled and usually compressed
 
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The uncompiled kernel source can be obtained from [http://www.kernel.org] in .tar.gz or tar.bze format . To compile the system one uses "make xconfig" in XWindows environment and later make dep; make clean; make bzImage; to compile the modules make modules make modules_install.
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The kernel image is booted changing  [[http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/lilo Lilo]] /etc/lilo.conf :
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*image=/boot/X.X.XX
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*label=KernelX.X.XX8
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*read-only
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*alias=2
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See also [[kernel panic]]
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Revision as of 20:08, 18 September 2007

The kernel is the core of the operating system. It's primary functions are controlling execution of processes, handling memory management, providing a filesystem, and providing a portable interface through which programs may communicate with hardware.

A kernel image is a compiled and usually compressed