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On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Sebastian Beßler |
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<sebastian@××××××××××××.de> wrote: |
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> Am 08.11.2011 14:11, schrieb Pandu Poluan: |
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>> Oh, and it also auto-modifies grub.cfg for me :-D |
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> Why modify grub.cfg? |
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> I have symlinks in /boot |
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> vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-3.1.0-gentoo |
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> and |
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> vmlinuz.old -> vmlinuz-3.1.0-rc6-00105-g279b1e0 |
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> who automagic get updated when ever I run make install. |
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> The corresponding part of grub.conf is |
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> title Gentoo Linux (OpenRC) |
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> root (hd0,1) |
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> kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 radeon.agpmode=-1 |
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> video=radeon:1440x900 zcache |
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> and |
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> title Gentoo Linux.old (OpenRC) |
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> root (hd0,1) |
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> kernel /vmlinuz.old root=/dev/sda3 radeon.agpmode=-1 |
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> video=radeon:1440x900 zcache |
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> That is all, no changing grub.conf and always the latest kernel. |
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I've used the same method as you "forever" and it works great, and |
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always easy fail-safe to boot previous kernel in case I got something |
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wrong on the new one. |
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