<div dir="ltr">On Fedora, make install and make zinstall are patched by the Fedora kernel maintainers so that they always try to install into /boot and run grubby. This behavior is Fedora-specific, and you cannot disable it using INSTALL_PATH like on Debian.<br><br>If you want to copy out the kernel artifacts without triggering Fedora\u2019s install scripts, you should avoid make install / make zinstall entirely. Instead use the upstream-standard targets:<div>make<br>make modules<br>make modules_install INSTALL_MOD_PATH=/your/output/path<br>make bzImage</div><div><br></div><div>Then manually copy the three files you care about:</div><div>cp arch/x86/boot/bzImage /your/output/path/vmlinuz<br>cp System.map /your/output/path/<br>cp .config /your/output/path/</div><div><br></div><div>OR... even simpler - use the built-in target that does not trigger Fedora\u2019s install hooks:</div><div>make INSTALL_PATH=/your/output/path installkernel<br></div><div><br></div><div>This runs only the upstream installkernel script and does not invoke grubby or Fedora\u2019s /sbin/installkernel override.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 2 Dec 2025 at 14:31, William Park via kwlug-disc <<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">(Double posted, so reply to your list)<br>
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Question for Fedora guys... How do you install kernel on your Fedora?<br>
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On Debian/Ubuntu, after compiling kernel, I usually do<br>
make zinstall INSTALL_PATH=boot_install<br>
and the 3 files (vmlinuz config, System.map) will be copied to <br>
"boot_install/" directory.<br>
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On Fedora,<br>
- it tries to copy to "/boot", which is not what I want.<br>
- it calls out to grub, which is also not what I want.<br>
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