Linux Kernel in a Nutshell

Greg Kroah-Hartman

The following pdf files are taken from http://www.kroah.com/lkn/. Most of the links on that page are broken, but a tarball of the pages below is available and reproduced here.

This book is available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license.

The book is copyright 2006, but still has useful information for LFS users.

Title Page

Preface

Table of Contents

Part I - Building the Kernel

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Requirements of Building and Using the Kernel
• 3.Retrieving the Kernel Source
• 4. Configuraing and Building
• 5. Installing and Booting from a Kernel
• 6. Upgrading a Kernel

Part II - Major Customizations

• 7. Customizing a Kernel
• 8. Kernel Configuration Recipes

Part III - Kernel Reference

• 9. Kernel Boot Command-Line Parameter Reference
• 10. Kernel Build Command-Line Referece
• 11. Kernel Configuration Option Reference

Part IV - Additional Information

• A, Helpful Utilities
• B. Bibliography

Index

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