Any ideas or better instructions for getting the versionless vmlinuz files?
TIA,
Roy
02-06-2009, 09:33 PM
Volker Armin Hemmann
kernel install question
On Freitag 06 Februar 2009, Roy Wright wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> Setting up a new system and want to do the simple grub setup where I
> have grub menu of:
>
> * Current Gentoo Kernel (/boot/vmlinuz)
> * Previous Gentoo Kernel (/boot/vmlinuz.old)
> * Gentoo 2.6.28-r1 (/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-gentoo-r1)
>
> Then when I rebuild the kernel I can use the following command:
>
> $ make && make modules_install && make install
>
> The make install should handle moving /boot/vmlinuz to /boot/vmlinuz.old
> and copying the current image to /boot/vmlinuz.
>
> I found what I think is the instructions I used before:
>
> http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Kernel/Installing
>
> which basically say to emerge debianutils
>
> The problem I'm seeing is that "make install" is including the version
> number in the vmlinuz filenames:
>
> # ls -1 /boot
> System.map-2.6.28-gentoo-r1
> System.map-2.6.28-gentoo-r1.old
> boot
> config-2.6.28-gentoo-r1
> config-2.6.28-gentoo-r1.old
> grub
> vmlinuz-2.6.28-gentoo-r1
> vmlinuz-2.6.28-gentoo-r1.old
>
>
> Any ideas or better instructions for getting the versionless vmlinuz files?
create them once and you have them in the future.
also
make all modules_install install
is shorter and gives you the same result.
02-06-2009, 09:46 PM
Roy Wright
kernel install question
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Freitag 06 Februar 2009, Roy Wright wrote:
I found what I think is the instructions I used before:
http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Kernel/Installing
which basically say to emerge debianutils
The problem I'm seeing is that "make install" is including the version
number in the vmlinuz filenames:
Any ideas or better instructions for getting the versionless vmlinuz files?
kernel install question
