Build your own custom Linux Kernel for SliTaz

• Install the slitaz-toolchain meta package. This package contains the required base files.
  • binutils
  • linux-headers
  • glibc-dev
  • gcc
  • make

# tazpkg get-install slitaz-toolchain

• Install the packages required to configure and compile the kernel sources.
  • ncurses-dev
  • perl

# tazpkg get-install ncurses-dev
# tazpkg get-install perl

• SliTaz provides a linux-source package. The kernel source tree will be downloaded from the mirror, installed to the /usr/src/linux-<VERSION> directory, and patched for SliTaz..

# tazpkg get-install linux-source
# /usr/bin/get-linux-source
# ls -l /usr/src
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           21 Jul 21 21:27 linux -> linux-2.6.25.5-slitaz
drwxrwxr-x   23 root     root         4096 Jul 21 22:41 linux-2.6.25.5-slitaz
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root     48589640 Jul 21 21:28 linux-2.6.25.5.tar.bz2

The Linux kernel source tree is now ready to configure and compile.

• Go to the directory that contains the kernel source tree.

# cd /usr/src/linux

• Prepare the build from the default configuration.

# make oldconfig && make prepare

• Modify the kernel configuration to your needs, and compile.
• The menuconfig allows you to customise the kernel, which is built into the bzImage file. Any modules are built and then installed in to the /usr/include directory. You should then copy the kernel itself to the /boot directory.

# make menuconfig
# make
# make modules 
# make modules_install
# cp arch/x86/boot/bzImage /boot

• Configure the boot-loader (optional)

# leafpad /boot/grub/menu.lst

• Add the new kernel to the list

# My kernel:
title 	SliTaz GNU/Linux (cooking) (Kernel <VERSION>)
		root (hd0,1)
		kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/sda2