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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] new genkernel problem
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2020 22:51:53
Message-Id: 20200605235146.2f7fc453@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] new genkernel problem by Dale
1 On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 15:57:07 -0500, Dale wrote:
2
3 > When you install your kernel, do you use make install or do you copy the
4 > kernel to /boot manually?  I do mine manually but also copy it manually
5 > as well.  That makes it hard for me to recall how to use the dracut
6 > command.  It requires a kernel version etc etc. 
7
8 I use make install. If I trust the makefile to build the kernel and it's
9 module tree, and copy the modules to the correct location, why wouldn't I
10 trust it to copy a single file to /boot at the same time?
11
12 > If you do copy yours manually to /boot, what command do you use for
13 > dracut?  Maybe I'm doing it a hard way or something and you have a
14 > easier method. 
15
16 cd /usr/src/linux
17 make all modules_install install
18 dracut --kver=$(cat include/config/kernel.release)
19
20 It doesn't get much easier ;-)
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23 --
24 Neil Bothwick
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Re: [gentoo-user] new genkernel problem Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>