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On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 03:33:24 -0500, Dale wrote: |
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> If one of those should stop working or I buy something new and need to |
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> add support for it, the new kernel will have a -2 on the end instead of |
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> -1. I'm not sure on the -gentoo one. Thing is, I can boot the old |
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> kernel of that version or even boot a older kernel if needed. It gives |
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> me a lot of booting options. Maybe someone can figure out a way to make |
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> those scripts name kernels that way?? |
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> I plan to clean older ones out eventually and I use uprecords to pick |
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> what kernel are the most stable and pick the latest versions, usually |
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> two maybe three, just to be sure I can boot something. I'll also add, I |
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> name my config files the same as kernels and also those init thingys I |
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> hate so much. The grub thingy requires the init thingy to have the same |
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> names but the configs just make sense. ;-) |
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> If a script could do it that way, I might even use it. I've yet to hear |
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> of one that does it tho. |
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make install does that, except the kernels are named vmlinuz-* rather |
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then kernel-*. The LOCALVERSION settings in the kernel config help. I do |
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the whole job with a script that boils down to |
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[ -f .config ] || make oldconfig |
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make all modules_install install || exit 1 |
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dracut --some-opts |
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grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg |
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If I trust the makefile to build the entire operating system kernel, |
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build all the modules it needs and copy all those modules to the correct |
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locations, I don't see why I can't let it copy one more file to /boot. |
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-- |
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Neil Bothwick |
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But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his |
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mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses. |
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-- Jerome K. Jerome |
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