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From: Daevid Vincent <daevid@××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Do I need the vmlinuz symbolic link with Grub?
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 02:29:37
Message-Id: 200508310222.j7V2MwFQ021024@robin.gentoo.org
1 Somehow net-wireless/madwifi-driver has broken on me (0.1_pre20050420-r1),
2 so I thought I'd recompile it. No luck. So I thought, maybe my kernel source
3 was different than my actual kernel (2.6.10-gentoo-r6), so I ran:
4 "make bzImage modules modules_install"
5
6 Copied and renamed the bzImage file over to /boot and all that jazz.
7
8 But I don't think I'm getting the right kernel as the date for my kernel is
9 today, but my vmlinuz is older.
10
11 How is that symlink created? And how is the vmlinuz-2.6.10-gentoo-r6
12 created? What happens if I rm that symlink or the file? Is my system
13 unbootable?
14
15 locutus ~ # ll /boot
16 total 9896
17 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 1024 Aug 30 18:54 .
18 drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Aug 2 19:31 ..
19 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 27 Jul 21 19:55 System.map ->
20 System.map-2.6.10-gentoo-r6
21 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1097083 Jul 21 19:55 System.map-2.6.10-gentoo-r6
22 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Sep 4 2004 boot -> .
23 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 34 Jul 21 19:56 config ->
24 config-kernel-2.6.10-gentoo-r6-cpu
25 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 34887 Aug 30 12:16
26 config-kernel-2.6.10-gentoo-r6-cpu
27 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 602620 Nov 14 2004 fbsplash-emergence-1024x768
28 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1267876 Nov 17 2004 fbsplash-emergence-1600x1200
29 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2262456 Apr 12 23:19 fbsplash.tgz
30 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jul 7 10:53 grub
31 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 172826 Aug 18 2004 initrd-Emergance-1280x1024
32 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 101494 Jun 15 2004 initrd-gentoo-1280x1024
33 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 150334 Jun 15 2004 initrd-matrix-1280x1024
34 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2171358 Aug 30 12:16 kernel-2.6.10-gentoo-r6-cpu
35 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 41895 Feb 27 2004 splash.initrd
36 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 24 Jul 21 19:55 vmlinuz ->
37 vmlinuz-2.6.10-gentoo-r6
38 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2164025 Jul 21 19:55 vmlinuz-2.6.10-gentoo-r6
39
40 I don't see any mention of vmlinuz in my grub.conf file:
41
42 default=0
43 timeout=10
44 splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
45
46 title Gentoo Linux (2.6.10r6) [resume framebuffer splash 1600 CPU]
47 root=(hd0,0)
48 kernel=(hd0,0)/boot/kernel-2.6.10-gentoo-r6-cpu ro root=/dev/hda3
49 video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,1600x1200-16@60 splash=silent,theme:emergence
50 CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 hdb=ide-scsi resume=/dev/hda6 pmdisk=/dev/hda6
51 netdev=5,0xec80,eth0
52 initrd (hd0,0)/boot/fbsplash-emergence-1600x1200
53
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Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need the vmlinuz symbolic link with Grub? Holly Bostick <motub@××××××.nl>
Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need the vmlinuz symbolic link with Grub? Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de>