Re: [gentoo-dev] issues with installing a new kernel

[320095285153-0001@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger)]

drobbins@gentoo.org wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 10:47:51AM -0700, Pete Gavin wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I found a couple of issues with installing a new kernel...
> >
> > First of all, I accidently installed the package w/o first mounting
> > /boot. So, after I rebooted, grub loaded the old kernel, since it
> > wasn't overwritten by the new one. I don't know if it would be a good
> > idea to mount /boot from the ebuild script, but we should maybe add
> > some kind of warning to it to at least remind people of it. Second, I
> > *do* think it would be a good idea to add depmod -a {kernel_version}
> > to the ebuild script, since this only changes stuff in the new module
> > directory, which just got installed anyways. What do you guys think?
>
> I think it would be good if the /boot mounted check were done in the
> pkg_preinst() function, which gets called right before a merge.
>

But a /boot partition is not neccesary.

> Yes, it's fine to call depmod -a; if possible, find a way to make it
> work with ${ROOT} so that we can merge to non-root filesystems and
> have depmod operate on the correct set of modules.

achim~

>
>
> Thanks again,
>
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