Make Bootable USB for Custom Kernel
2026-Feb-11
Host: Dell XPS (2023) A compiled kernel source tree (with bzImage built) grub-mkrescue installed (sudo apt install grub-pc-bin grub-efi-amd64-bin xorriso mtools) A USB drive Ensure these are set in .config before building (required for UEFI framebuffer output on XPS): CONFIG_EFI=y CONFIG_EFI_STUB=y CONFIG_DRM=y CONFIG_DRM_SIMPLEDRM=y CONFIG_SYSFB=y CONFIG_SYSFB_SIMPLEFB=y CONFIG_FB=y CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_DETECT_PRIMARY=y Then resolve dependencies and build: make olddefconfig make -j$(nproc) e.g., can be...
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