Re: [gentoo-user] When did bzImage move?

[Dale]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
>
>> Mark Knecht wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 1:32 PM, KH <gentoo-user@××××××××××××××××.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Volker Armin Hemmann schrieb:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On Sonntag 01 Februar 2009, Dale wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I just rebuilt a newer kernel and noticed something.  It seems bzImage
>>>>>> has moved from arch/i386/boot/bzImage to arch/x86/boot/bzImage.  When
>>>>>> did this happen?  Is x86 the same as i386?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> yes. They merged the '386' and the amd64/x86_64 architecture into x86.
>>>>>
>>>>> And it happend a couple of kernel versions ago.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> I am running amd64 using 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 and in arch there still is x86
>>>> an x86_64. Am I doing anything wrong or did I just missanderstand you?
>>>>
>>>> kh
>>>>
>>>>
>>> cd in there and look around. x86_64 only has a boot directory and when
>>> you look at the bzImage file in it you find it's a link to
>>> ../../x86/boot/bzImage so what's happening is all the files are under
>>> x86 but if you say 'I built AMD64' and do cp arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage
>>> you are really getting the file under x86.
>>>
>>> Hope this helps,
>>> Mark
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Well, when I tried to copy the old way, it just copied the link itself,
>> then when I looked in /boot, it was red and really upset.  I had to copy
>> the kernel with Konqeror to get it into /boot, after finding the stupid
>> thing.  Don't get mad at me, every time I copied it it was a broken
>> link.  Sometimes you got to do what you got to do.  :/
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)  :-)
>>
>>
>
> Dale,
>    There isn't a reason in the world why I'd get mad at you! :-))))
>
>    I guess I'm not sure I know what you mean by 'when I tried to copy
> it the old way'. I think my kernel management is far less
> sophisticated than what I'm reading the real Linux guys here do. I'm
> embarrased to say that the only thing in my /boot directory is a bunch
> of bzImage files and a grub subdirectory. I have nothing else.
> Basically I build the kernel using make && make modules_install and
> then copy the kernel by hand using
>
> cp arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage /boot/bzImage-2.6.27-gentoo-r8
>
> or whatever the kernel is. I add that to grub.conf and I'm done. works for me.
>
> Possibly you've done more or less the same thing but using i386
> instead of x86_64 or x86? I think the i386/boot/bzImage file has
> actually been a link to the x86 directory for awhile now. I looked in
> an older 2.6.23 kernel on this machine and found an i386 directory but
> didn't in the 2.6.24 kernel so I guess that's when things changed.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Mark
>
>
>

I sort of do the way you do but I change the name so I know what version
of kernel it came from and what version it is from my build.  Sometimes
I have to build three or four before I get what I want.  I also copy the
config over with the same naming scheme so I know which config goes with
which kernel.  I always keep two kernels in there but sometimes I get a
dozen or more when I am testing new ones. 

The problem I ran into when I copied the old way, cp
arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot, that wasn't the kernel but was a link to
the kernel in the x86 directory tree.  When I copied the link then the
link got broke and then it appeared red on my screen.  I thought I was
going nuts for a bit.  I hadn't heard anything about the kernel being
moved and it had been a while.  I'm old and I do forget sometimes.

I don't get mad about much either.  It's just another day.  I got enough
things to worry about already.

Dale

:-)  :-)