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From: Hayley <spam@×××××.systems>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: system.map file in /boot. How to manage?
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2021 15:47:35
Message-Id: d51b7cf38b56300d9d2cf42ee9fb2c6d727a20b2.camel@foxes.systems
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: system.map file in /boot. How to manage? by Grant Edwards
1 On Thu, 2021-07-01 at 15:14 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
2 > On 2021-07-01, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
3 >
4 > > make install names the files in a way that dracut and grub-mkconfig
5 > > recognise. Just run make install after make modules install. You've
6 > > let
7 > > the makefile copy all the other files, you may as well let it handle
8 > > the
9 > > final two :)
10 >
11 > IIRC, "make install" requiers /sbin/installkernel -- an executable
12 > that's provided by one of installkernel-gentoo-3, debianutils, or
13 > installkernel-systemd-boot. Back in the day, a base installation
14 > didn't have /sbin/installkernel, and you needed to install it
15 > manually. Has that changed?
16 >
17 > --
18 > Grant
19 >
20 >
21
22
23 The handbook says that sys-kernel/installkernel-gentoo should be
24 installed by default. [1]
25
26 Just throw in my 2 cents, I use genkernel to manage compiling and
27 installing the kernel. With a little configuring you can get it to
28 compile, install and run grub-mkconfig for you. That way I can't forget
29 to run grub-mkconfig or something.
30
31 Hayley
32
33 [1]
34 https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Kernel#Installing_correct_installkernel