Do you want to keep up with latest kernel? However, compiling linux kernel by oneself is a time-consuming task. So why not use a pre-compiled kernel directly? :)
This script can install latest archlinux's kernel on non-archlinux distributions (CentOS & Ubuntu are tested). It will install arch's kernel & initrd along with existing kernels. If arch's kernel failed to boot, you may choose existing kernel to boot your machine.
Find an archlinux mirror here and run this script like this: (note: the tail of mirror URL should be removed)
sudo ./get-archlinux-kernel.sh "https://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/"After installation, the new kernel & initrd should appear in /boot. To load the new kernel, a reboot is required.
It is strongly recommend to run this script AFTER EACH run of yum update or apt upgrade, because system upgrades may break existing modifications that previously set up by this script.
DKMS is not handled. Also certain software with kernel version requirements may stop working. You may want to upgrade these software after installing the new kernel.
This script downloads a bootstrap image of archlinux and set up a tiny archlinux environment. After installing the latest kernel with pacman, the kernel & initrd are copied to the host. Although using host's tools to generate initrd is possible, I decided to use arch's native tools in order to improve compatibility.