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On Sonntag 01 Februar 2009, Dale wrote: |
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> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> > On Sonntag 01 Februar 2009, Dale wrote: |
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> >> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> >>> On Sonntag 01 Februar 2009, Dale wrote: |
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> >>>> Hi, |
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> >>>> |
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> >>>> I just rebuilt a newer kernel and noticed something. It seems bzImage |
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> >>>> has moved from arch/i386/boot/bzImage to arch/x86/boot/bzImage. When |
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> >>>> did this happen? Is x86 the same as i386? |
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> >>> |
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> >>> yes. They merged the '386' and the amd64/x86_64 architecture into x86. |
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> >>> |
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> >>> And it happend a couple of kernel versions ago. |
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> >> |
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> >> OK. At least I ain't going crazy. Whew, that was close. |
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> >> |
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> >>>> I'm just wanting to make sure I am not going to blow up something when |
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> >>>> I boot that thing. |
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> >>> |
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> >>> why do you care anyway? Just install debianutils and use make install. |
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> >> |
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> >> I like to copy mine manually. I dunno, I just do. I'm weird that way. |
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> >> I also have a unique way of naming my kernels so I can keep up with |
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> >> which is which. |
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> > well, you can always put the name in the config - and let make install do |
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> > the copy. That way you get a nice vmlinuz symlink to the latest kernel |
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> > and vmlinuz.old to the older one - and you never have to touch grub.conf |
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> > again. |
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> But that would only allow you to have two kernels laying around. Right |
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> now I have these: |
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no, you can have as many kernels as you want. But there is a vmlinuz symlink |
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to the latest and vmlinuz.old symlink to the previous installed one. |
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