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On 5/25/06, Steven Susbauer <stupendoussteve@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Thu, 25 May 2006, Daniel da Veiga wrote: |
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> > > I also get the bonehead award: there was a new kernel sitting on my |
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> > > hard drive and just yesterday I found and installed it. It was |
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> > > remarkably easy to install! I loaded the configuration file from my |
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> > > old kernel and then just make && make install and it worked! I didn't |
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> > > even have to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst! Dang... I got done and said |
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> > > "that was easy." I think I'm really getting the hang of all this! |
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> > You have run an "emerge -u world" and it got the kernel sources, you |
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> > have no special needs and so the default configuration fit your need, |
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> > compiling kernels is EASY, making them work, that's a hard one. |
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> > You sincerely must be booting from your old kernel and your |
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> > /usr/src/linux link must be pointing at your old sources, else you |
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> > would have some problems and probably would have to recompile, |
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> > reconfigure some stuff, because after make and all, you should copy |
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> > the image to /boot and, if necessary, change the grub.conf (menu.lst) |
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> > to point at the right file. |
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> > See the Kernel upgrade guide at Gentoo.org for more info. |
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> I don't know what the default grub.conf is for the Gentoo installer, but |
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It points at a kernel named as Genkernel does. |
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> if it points to /boot/vmlinuz then make install is sufficient to install |
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That's why I know it isn't pointing at vmlinuz, because the installer |
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(and thus, the OP) uses genkernel. |
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> the new, working kernel... it rewrites symlinks to the new kernel. BTW, |
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Only if you specifically do a USE="symlink" emerge gentoo-sources |
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> he copied the config from his old kernel, it |
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> is not using the default options and thus *should* work just fine. |
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Yeah, I missed that line. You're right. But he didn't installed the |
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new kernel, and alsa-driver, ndiswrapper, nvidia drivers and a lot of |
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other stuff claim a new compile after a kernel upgrade, I doubt it |
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would be as clean as the OP stated. But yeah, it may happen. |
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