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1.4.3 Building the kernel

Next step is configuring and building the kernel. You can check Gentoo’s kernel configuration guide to learn more about the matter. Overall, Gentoo Wiki is a good place to learn about configuration according to your hardware. The following will assume a monolithic kernel.

make menuconfig
make
install -Dm755 $(make -s image_name) /boot/vmlinuz-linux