Re: [gentoo-user] can genkernel install files with different names?

[Neil Bothwick]

On 22 October 2019 08:58:01 BST, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
>On Tuesday, 22 October 2019 00:44:00 BST Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 00:42:25 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> > make install will create symlinks for vmlinuz and vmlinuz.old to
>the
>> > latest and previous kernel, doing much of what you need. You need
>/boot
>> > to be on a filesystem that supports symlinks and ISTR that it only
>> > updates the symlinks if already present but doesn't create them
>from
>> > scratch.
>>
>> I think you need sys-apps/debianutils installed too.
>
>Last time I used this symlink-ing approach to vmlinuz I came across a
>problem,
>which I didn't have time to resolve and went back to my manual approach
>of
>copying kernels into /boot:
>
>I eagerly compile a new kernel.  It is installed/copied into vmlinuz
>and its
>predecessor which worked fine is copied into vmlimuz.old.  I try to
>boot it
>and discover I didn't configure it as carefully as I should have done -
>it
>won't boot.  I boot into vmlinuz.old and reconfigure the kernel, which
>is now
>installed into vmlinuz and the recently configured and non-booting
>kernel is
>copied into vmlinuz.old.  Disaster strikes as the newly reconfigured
>kernel
>won't boot either!  I now have two recently configured and non-booting
>kernels
>vmlinuz and vmlinuz.old and no other working kernel to boot with.
>
>With manual copying/naming of kernels I can overwrite any non-booting
>kernels
>with the latest compiled example, without moving links around.  What is
>the
>recommended solution to the above problem?

Be more careful when configuring your kernels ;}

I haven't used the symlink approach for some time. I use a script to generate the entries for GRUB or systemd-boot. As I use a script to build and install the kernel in the first place, there are no extra steps as one script calls the other.

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