INSTALLKERNEL(8)

✨ INSTALLKERNEL(8) ✨

okay so this is the manual page for installkernel 💖 (system manager's manual, bestie, it's giving sysadmin energy 💅)

🌸 NAME

installkernel — install a new kernel image 🦋

🧚 SYNOPSIS

installkernel version zImage System.map [directory]

💜 DESCRIPTION

okay so installkernel is the one that drops a brand new kernel image onto your system straight from the Linux source tree 🔥 it's not random, it gets called by the Linux kernel makefiles when you run make install in there, so you don't have to summon it yourself 🫶

the new kernel lands in {directory}/vmlinuz-{version} ✨ and if a symbolic link called {directory}/vmlinuz already exists, it gets refreshed so it points at the new kernel. the kernel that was there before doesn't vanish either, it's kept as {directory}/vmlinuz.old 🥹 that's giving backup energy, iconic 👑

🎀 BUGS

⚠️ okay bestie, this one's a little awkward 🙈 installkernel lives in /sbin only because the Linux kernel makefiles call it from there. it really should be in /usr/sbin. but it isn't needed to boot a system, so no panic 😭

Debian Linux · 7 Jan 2001 · INSTALLKERNEL(8) 🌈 that's the vibe check, periodt 💅✨