Re: [gentoo-amd64] kernel recompile?

[Pawel Kraszewski <Gentoo@kraszewscy.net>]

Dnia środa, 1 listopada 2006 17:55, Florian D. napisał:

> 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.

Addednum to Jesus' thread. Make install does this:

1. If there are files/links named 'vmlinuz', 'System.map' or 'config', they 
   are renamed with .old extension
2. New version of these files is installed with -<version> appendix (that's 
   what Jesus mentioned)
3. The new files are symlinked to short names mentioned in #1

So afterwards vmlinuz and friends are symlinks pointing to current kernel and 
vmlinuz.old and friends are symlinks pointing to previous kernel. In GRUB I 
have profile for 'vmlinuz' named "Current kernel" and for 'vmlinuz.old' 
named "Previous kernel".

Pre-previous kernel is still available by full name "vmlinuz-<version>".

Ah, yes - documentation. In fact - there is one. Use "make help" in kernel 
directory for all options make accepts. At the end, in 'make install' docs it 
says it uses installkernel to do the thing. Then you have 'man 
installkernel' - exactly what you need.

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