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On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 8:56 PM, David Relson <relson@×××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hello Dirk, |
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> |
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> Thanks for taking the time to reply. The combination of gentoo-sources |
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> and genkernel has been working quite well for the 2 yrs I've been |
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> running Gentoo. It's convenient to have grub.conf auto-magically |
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> updated and that's not been an issue. |
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You don't need to edit grub.conf at all. |
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"make install" automatically updates the symlinks in /boot/ |
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For me, the kernel update process is: |
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emerge -a1v sys-kernel/vanilla-sources |
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cd /usr/src/linux |
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// I usually issue make defconfig to start with a fresh config. But if |
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you skip make defconfig, the following command will start with your |
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old config from /boot/config |
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make menuconfig |
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make |
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make install modules_install |
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//The above command automatically copies the kernel image, System.map |
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and .config to /boot and updates the /boot/vmlinuz, /boot/vmlinuz.old, |
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/boot/config, /boot/config.old, /boot/System.map, /boot/System.map.old |
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symlinks. It also copies the modules to /lib/modules |
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//No need for genkernel, no need to edit grub.conf |
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*reboot |
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*delete obsolete modules in /lib/modules, and obsolete files in /boot |
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*By the way, before i delete obsolete config file in /boot, i back it |
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up in a oldconfigs.tar.lzma compressed archive. |
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