Re: [gentoo-user] Something weird and I'm confused. BIOS and SATA is empty

[Neil Bothwick]

On Mon, 7 Nov 2011 12:00:39 +1100, Adam Carter wrote:

> > All it does it copy the kernel, system map and config to /boot and
> > reset the symlinks to point to the new and previous kernels. You can
> > still keep as many kernels as you want in /boot, but you can always
> > boot the last two without modifying GRUB's config.
>
> Can you please ls -l /boot so i can see what it sets up? I'm still
> doing all that manually...
>

% ls -lh /boot
total 373M
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     1 Jul 22  2008 boot -> .
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    22 Nov  3 20:00 config -> config-3.1.0-gentoo-11
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   78K Oct 19 09:30 config-3.0.7-gentoo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   79K Nov  2 16:47 config-3.1.0-gentoo-10
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   79K Nov  3 19:58 config-3.1.0-gentoo-11
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    22 Nov  3 20:00 config.old -> config-3.1.0-gentoo-10
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root  4.0K Nov  6 21:23 grub2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    26 Nov  3 20:00 System.map -> System.map-3.1.0-gentoo-11
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1.6M Oct 19 09:30 System.map-3.0.7-gentoo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1.6M Nov  2 16:47 System.map-3.1.0-gentoo-10
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1.6M Nov  3 19:58 System.map-3.1.0-gentoo-11
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    26 Nov  3 20:00 System.map.old -> System.map-3.1.0-gentoo-10
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    23 Oct 19 21:58 System.map.safe -> System.map-3.0.7-gentoo
-rw-r--r-- 1 nelz users 350M Nov  3 00:17 systemrescuecd-x86-2.4.0.iso
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    23 Nov  3 20:00 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-3.1.0-gentoo-11
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2.8M Oct 19 09:30 vmlinuz-3.0.7-gentoo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2.9M Nov  2 16:47 vmlinuz-3.1.0-gentoo-10
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2.9M Nov  3 19:58 vmlinuz-3.1.0-gentoo-11
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    23 Nov  3 20:00 vmlinuz.old -> vmlinuz-3.1.0-gentoo-10

I think you need debianutils installed to create the symlinks. Grub
doesn't need to be touched because the menu points to the symlinks rather
than specific kernels although I'm using Grub2 on this box, so specific
versions are added to the end of the menu by grub2-mkconfig.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

I distinctly remember forgetting that.