Re: [gentoo-amd64] kernel recompile?

["Jesús Guerrero" <6thpink@terra.es>]

El Miércoles, 1 de Noviembre de 2006 17:55, Florian D. escribió:
> Pawel Kraszewski wrote:
> > So manual config, automatic install
> > is my way.
>
> ok, sorry for being off-topic, but what is the default installation
> target for 'make install'? /boot/vmlinuz? and is there a
> backup-function, say, that my last /boot/vmlinuz gets automatically
> moved to /boot/vmlinuz.old or something? a pointer to documentation
> would be welcome, dr.google knows nothing.
>
> > [OT] Yesterday I managed to finally compile OpenOffice on my AMD64. Boy,
> > that's the speed improvement! For successful compilation I just needed
> > the "JAVA_PKG_FORCE_VM=blackdown-jdk-1.4.2" trick.
>
> me too :-)


Make install copies the kernel image to /boot/vmlinuz-<version-number> for 
vanilla kernels, for gentoo-sources it was something like 
vmlinux-gentoo-<version-number> or so, so, each kernel is copied with a 
different name.

If you use this same name convention in your grub.conf, then it is a good 
thing, since you can keep old kernels until you know that your new kernel 
actually works, instead of being continually readjusting the vmlinuz link, 
which I find to be a hassle.

It is a matter of copying the lines for your old kernel a couple of lines 
below and then changing the version number, and you get a new menu entry with 
your new kernel.

All is better for me if each kernel has its name in the grub.conf file, cause 
I know what I am doing in every momment without having to leave the editor 
and go to the command line to see where is vmlinuz pointing at.

Regards.

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