# INSTALLKERNEL - install a new kernel image - man - [phpMan]

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## NAME
       installkernel - install a new kernel image

## SYNOPSIS
       **installkernel _**version_ _zImage_ _System.map_ [_directory_]

## DESCRIPTION
       **installkernel  **installs a new kernel image onto the system from the Linux source tree.  It is
       called by the Linux kernel makefiles when **make install **is invoked there.

       The new kernel is installed into _{directory}/vmlinuz-{version}_.  If a symbolic  link  _{direc‐_
       _tory}/vmlinuz_  already  exists,  it is refreshed by making a link from _{directory}/vmlinuz_ to
       the new kernel, and the previously installed kernel is available as _{directory}/vmlinuz.old_.

## BUGS
       **installkernel **resides in /sbin only because the Linux kernel makefiles call  it  from  there.
       It should really be in /usr/sbin.  It isn't needed to boot a system.

Debian Linux                                 7 Jan 2001                             [_INSTALLKERNEL_(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/INSTALLKERNEL/8/markdown)