BUILDING THE KERNEL In CyanogenMod 9, kernel building is now integrated into the Android Build System and building through the Android Build System is the only supported method of building the kernel. Run the following command in the root directory of your Android tree to build the kernel. (Replacing galaxysmtd with your build target.) make -j4 out/target/product/galaxysmtd/boot.img The resulting boot.img will be stored at out/target/product/galaxysmtd/boot.img And the kernel modules will be stored at out/target/product/galaxysmtd/system/lib/modules/ Note: If you are building the entire system image, there is no need to manually build the kernel. Building the kernel is fully integrated into the Android Build System. This instruction is provided in case you need to build only the kernel. For more info, please see http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Integrated_kernel_building