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On Wednesday 16 November 2005 22:24, Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com> writes: |
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> > Updating the kernel today, I referenced that piece of the |
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> > documentation and borrowed this command from it: |
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> > genkernel --bootloader=grub all |
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> > However, not only did it not update grub.conf but grub.conf |
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> > disappeared entirely following the successful build. |
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> Let me tell this story again briefly... This was quite a knuckleheaded |
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> move on my part. Its been so long since I updated my kernel, I forgot |
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> that I switched to lilo some mnths ago.... So, er I misinfomed the |
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> genkernel tool. |
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> I'm not sure that should have made any difference in what it did to |
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> grub.conf or not.. |
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It doesn't make any difference trust me. I tried genkernel a few months ago |
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with the --bootloader=grub option and it it removed everything in my |
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grub.conf as well ; the file was 0 bytes afterwards. Lucky for me, I keep |
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backups. |
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I've never really liked Genkernel though and don't use it. Most of the time |
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when I update my kernel it is pretty quick and easy: |
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I turn on the symlink USEflag which makes a new symlink of my new kernel. |
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So, after I emerge any new kernel source I just cd /usr/src/linux then |
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zcat /proc/config.gz >.config which copies the config from my current kernel |
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then run make oldconfig (any new changes will prompt you); then make |
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menuconfig if I want to change anything, otherwise make all install |
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install_modules |
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Then just reboot. I already have grub configured to use either the vmlinuz |
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symlink in /boot which points to my latest kernel image or the fallback |
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vmlinuz.old which is my previous kernel image. The make install copies these |
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files into /boot automaticly. |
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Chris |
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Linux 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP |
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01:39:55 up 21:54, 8 users, load average: 3.21, 2.61, 2.39 |
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