Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 and is the upgrade a tooth puller.

[Dale]

Mick wrote:
> On Saturday 30 Jun 2012 23:01:40 Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 09:07:30 -0500, Dale wrote:
>>> It seems to expect to keep
>>> only two kernels around and I'm real bad to have more than that,
>>> sometimes way more than that.
>> No it doesn't, it only installs kernels, not uninstalls them. Sure, there
>> are only two symlinks but those are less relevant with GRUB2 since
>> grub2-mkconfig creates menu entries for all your kernels anyway.
> Aha!  This will be useful for me.
>
> I have not used make install because I found that it would override previous
> kernels of mine that I might needed to revert to.
>
> I remember you (or someone as knowledgeable) had mentioned of a way to
> automate the linkage and naming of vmlinuz so that older kernels were retained
> and versioned, but I never went as far as experimenting with it.

Me either.  I just do it the easy way using cp.  That way, I know what
is what and that I have not overwritten anything I might need later.  I
like to be sure since I have had kernels with bugs for my system. 

>
>>> Plus, if I do it myself, I know what I am
>>> doing.  If I use make install, I don't know if something was changed in
>>> how it does it.
>> So you trust make to compile and link hundreds of object files and create
>> the kernels and modules. You also trust it to copy all the modules, but
>> you just want to copy that one last file manually so you can pretend you
>> are in control? ;-)
> Well, he and I are at least in control of this copying and naming actions?
> ;-)

I might add, I don't use modules except for nvidia which is outside the
kernel.  So, I may be in more control than you think.  ;-) 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

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