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On Freitag 06 Februar 2009, Roy Wright wrote: |
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> Howdy, |
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> Setting up a new system and want to do the simple grub setup where I |
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> have grub menu of: |
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> * Current Gentoo Kernel (/boot/vmlinuz) |
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> * Previous Gentoo Kernel (/boot/vmlinuz.old) |
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> * Gentoo 2.6.28-r1 (/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-gentoo-r1) |
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> Then when I rebuild the kernel I can use the following command: |
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> $ make && make modules_install && make install |
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> The make install should handle moving /boot/vmlinuz to /boot/vmlinuz.old |
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> and copying the current image to /boot/vmlinuz. |
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> I found what I think is the instructions I used before: |
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> http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Kernel/Installing |
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> which basically say to emerge debianutils |
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> The problem I'm seeing is that "make install" is including the version |
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> number in the vmlinuz filenames: |
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> # ls -1 /boot |
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> System.map-2.6.28-gentoo-r1 |
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> System.map-2.6.28-gentoo-r1.old |
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> boot |
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> config-2.6.28-gentoo-r1 |
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> config-2.6.28-gentoo-r1.old |
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> grub |
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> vmlinuz-2.6.28-gentoo-r1 |
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> vmlinuz-2.6.28-gentoo-r1.old |
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> Any ideas or better instructions for getting the versionless vmlinuz files? |
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create them once and you have them in the future. |
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also |
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make all modules_install install |
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is shorter and gives you the same result. |
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