Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6 upgrade howto

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 03:51 +0100, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote:
> Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
>
> >The Gentoo docs say for 2.6 simply do make && make modules_install.  I
> >think I tried the make install and got an warning message.
> >
> >
> >
> maybe, but I've installed maybe 20 kernels on few machines in the last
> weeks and never seen one ;)
> speaking about gentoo-dev-sources & mm-sources

in a 2.6 kernel, typing make help gives this information:

"install       - Install kernel using
                   (your) ~/bin/installkernel or
                   (distribution) /sbin/installkernel or
                   install to $(INSTALL_PATH) and run lilo"

/sbin/installkernel is from the debianutils package, so not
surprisinglly it installs the kernel as debian would expect to find it.
man installkernel or head /sbin/installkernel for more info. 

This seems to install the kernel as /boot/vmlinuz-version with a link to
that from /boot/vmlinuz, and the old kernel moved to /boot/vmlinuz.old. 

Is that what you see when you run make install Bastian?

>
> >On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>>6.  Run make && make modules_install
> >>>7.  Copy the bzImage to /boot - mount /boot first if it's not already.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>why not
> >>mount /boot
> >>make && make install && make modules_install ?
> >>At least with grub it work fine it copyies all useful files (config,
> >>System.map, vmlinuz) do the backup of  files already there easy.
> >>
> >>regards francesco
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