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Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> Dale wrote: |
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>> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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>>> Dale wrote: |
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>>>> I like to copy mine manually. I dunno, I just do. I'm weird that way. |
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>>>> I also have a unique way of naming my kernels so I can keep up with |
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>>>> which is which. |
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>>> well, you can always put the name in the config - and let make install do |
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>>> the copy. That way you get a nice vmlinuz symlink to the latest kernel |
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>>> and vmlinuz.old to the older one - and you never have to touch grub.conf |
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>>> again. |
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>> But that would only allow you to have two kernels laying around. Right |
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>> now I have these: |
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> no, you can have as many kernels as you want. But there is a vmlinuz symlink |
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> to the latest and vmlinuz.old symlink to the previous installed one. |
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To be precise, the config option CONFIG_LOCALVERSION appends a string to |
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the end of the kernel version, which installkernel uses to place the |
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kernel image. |
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If /boot/vmlinuz exists, then it is moved to /boot/vmlinuz.old, and a |
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*symlink* from /boot/vmlinuz is created to "vmlinuz-${VERSION}". If |
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/boot/vmlinuz did *not* exist before installation, then no symlink is |
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created. installkernel also copies your .config to |
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/boot/config-${VERSION}, performing the same move and symlink operation. |
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In addition, if you *do* install the same kernel version twice, it will |
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move your old version out of the way (to vmlinuz-${VERSION}.old) first, |
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so even if you do forget to update your .config, you will still have |
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both kernels. |
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To see exactly what "make install" does, read /sbin/installkernel (a |
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/bin/sh script), as that's all `make install` calls (well, it first |
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checks for ~/bin/${CROSS_COMPILE}installkernel, and calls it, if it |
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exists, which allows you to customize the installation process). |
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Personally, I will set CONFIG_LOCALVERSION to ".#" or "-r0.#" on a |
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second+ compilation of the same kernel version. (My current kernel is |
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2.6.28-gentoo-r1.2). |
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