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On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 23:06:10 +0800 (CST), Stephen Liu wrote: |
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> > > kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel-2.6.17/gentoo-r7 root=/dev/hda2 |
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> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
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> > You have release 5 and in grub.conf release 7. |
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> During installation after chroot, I ran; |
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> # ls -l /usr/src/linux |
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> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root ...... /usr/src/linux -> |
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> linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r7 |
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> I used it as kernel version. |
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/usr/src contains the source to the kernel (as you'd expect form the |
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name). The actual kernels live in /boot, this is the version that must |
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match. |
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As was previously pointed out, if you use "make install" to install your |
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kernel, the correct files are copied to the correct places, and symlinks |
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are set up so you don't need to mess with your bootloader config. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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