From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GfLb8-0000xC-Qy for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 01 Nov 2006 19:18:03 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kA1JEtxF007858; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 19:14:55 GMT Received: from v27657.home.net.pl (v27657.home.net.pl [89.161.156.225]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kA1JEsJ6016330 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 19:14:54 GMT Received: from efk31.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl (HELO alpha64.lan) (pawel.kraszewscy@home@83.21.48.31) by m058.home.net.pl with SMTP; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 19:14:52 -0000 From: Pawel Kraszewski To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] kernel recompile? Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 20:14:53 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <4547594F.1070406@verizon.net> <200611011532.20919.Gentoo@kraszewscy.net> <4548D184.1020804@gmx.at> In-Reply-To: <4548D184.1020804@gmx.at> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200611012014.53232.Gentoo@kraszewscy.net> X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id kA1JEsJ6016330 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id kA1JEt08007858 X-Archives-Salt: 3de95620-f214-4a56-a8ea-82e9614329b5 X-Archives-Hash: 6e3f264e57f2a26326b51a55014dc688 Dnia =C5=9Broda, 1 listopada 2006 17:55, Florian D. napisa=C5=82: > 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', th= ey=20 are renamed with .old extension 2. New version of these files is installed with - appendix (that= 's=20 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=20 vmlinuz.old and friends are symlinks pointing to previous kernel. In GRUB= I=20 have profile for 'vmlinuz' named "Current kernel" and for 'vmlinuz.old'=20 named "Previous kernel". Pre-previous kernel is still available by full name "vmlinuz-". Ah, yes - documentation. In fact - there is one. Use "make help" in kerne= l=20 directory for all options make accepts. At the end, in 'make install' doc= s it=20 says it uses installkernel to do the thing. Then you have 'man=20 installkernel' - exactly what you need. --=20 Pawel Kraszewski www.kraszewscy.net --=20 gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list