Re: [gentoo-user] Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

[Steven Susbauer]

On Thu, 25 May 2006, Daniel da Veiga wrote:

> > I also get the bonehead award: there was a new kernel sitting on my
> > hard drive and just yesterday I found and installed it.  It was
> > remarkably easy to install!  I loaded the configuration file from my
> > old kernel and then just make && make install and it worked!  I didn't
> > even have to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst!  Dang...  I got done and said
> > "that was easy."  I think I'm really getting the hang of all this!
>
> You have run an "emerge -u world" and it got the kernel sources, you
> have no special needs and so the default configuration fit your need,
> compiling kernels is EASY, making them work, that's a hard one.
>
> You sincerely must be booting from your old kernel and your
> /usr/src/linux link must be pointing at your old sources, else you
> would have some problems and probably would have to recompile,
> reconfigure some stuff, because after make and all, you should copy
> the image to /boot and, if necessary, change the grub.conf (menu.lst)
> to point at the right file.
>
> See the Kernel upgrade guide at Gentoo.org for more info.

I don't know what the default grub.conf is for the Gentoo installer, but
if it points to /boot/vmlinuz then make install is sufficient to install
the new, working kernel... it rewrites symlinks to the new kernel. BTW,
he copied the config from his old kernel, it
is not using the default options and thus *should* work just fine.
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