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

[Dale]

Stroller wrote:
>
> On 2 Feb 2009, at 01:05, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 1 Feb 2009 15:08:25 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Four commands plus some editing, which could contain an error making the
>> kernel unbootable. The alternative s one command
>>
>> make all modules_install install
>>
>> Which also, as a nice bonus, backs up your kernel config too.
>
> Does this not also add the system.map file & a couple of others to
> /boot ?
>
> I think I tried this &/or genkernel & when I looked at /boot I found
> they'd littered the place with clutter.
>
> I hope you won't be offended, but the amount of junk files this added
> made me want to barf.
>
> I have avoided any such "complications" since, considering I don't
> consider copying a file & editing grub.conf to be anything of a
> complication myself.
>
> To guard against unbootable kernels I have a bzImage.old which is set
> as fallback. To guard against human error when editing grub.conf the
> bzImage.old is the first (0th?) entry in the list, and finally - lest
> things go really pyriform - I have a KVM-IP.
>
>
> On 2 Feb 2009, at 01:17, Tom wrote:
>>> Basically I build the kernel using make && make modules_install and
>>> then copy the kernel by hand
>>
>> Good god. So I'm not alone in being a dumbass :)
>
> What they said.
>
> Stroller.
>
>
>

I think I read somewhere that system.map file is no longer needed,
unless you want to set up things in a "odd" way.  Is that correct?

Dale

:-)  :-)