From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21624 invoked from network); 7 Dec 2004 04:48:16 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 7 Dec 2004 04:48:16 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1CbXGq-0004Xa-2M for arch-gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 07 Dec 2004 04:48:16 +0000 Received: (qmail 17341 invoked by uid 89); 7 Dec 2004 04:47:59 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-user-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 30916 invoked from network); 7 Dec 2004 04:47:58 +0000 Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 17:49:19 +1300 From: Nick Rout In-reply-to: <41B51AA0.4030107@pnpitalia.it> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <1102394960.11899.7.camel@sf.rout.dyndns.org> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 Content-type: text/plain Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <3k70ii$iqf14u@mxip18a.cluster1.charter.net> <41B4E2BC.3030904@pnpitalia.it> <41B51AA0.4030107@pnpitalia.it> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6 upgrade howto X-Archives-Salt: 13b75174-5285-4d33-b636-9741d6c092b8 X-Archives-Hash: caf25ca66f4afe4dc69169966f2725bc On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 03:51 +0100, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: > Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > > >The Gentoo docs say for 2.6 simply do make && make modules_install. I > >think I tried the make install and got an warning message. > > > > > > > maybe, but I've installed maybe 20 kernels on few machines in the last > weeks and never seen one ;) > speaking about gentoo-dev-sources & mm-sources in a 2.6 kernel, typing make help gives this information: "install - Install kernel using (your) ~/bin/installkernel or (distribution) /sbin/installkernel or install to $(INSTALL_PATH) and run lilo" /sbin/installkernel is from the debianutils package, so not surprisinglly it installs the kernel as debian would expect to find it. man installkernel or head /sbin/installkernel for more info. This seems to install the kernel as /boot/vmlinuz-version with a link to that from /boot/vmlinuz, and the old kernel moved to /boot/vmlinuz.old. Is that what you see when you run make install Bastian? > > >On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: > > > > > > > >>>6. Run make && make modules_install > >>>7. Copy the bzImage to /boot - mount /boot first if it's not already. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>why not > >>mount /boot > >>make && make install && make modules_install ? > >>At least with grub it work fine it copyies all useful files (config, > >>System.map, vmlinuz) do the backup of files already there easy. > >> > >>regards francesco > >> > >>-- > >>gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > >> > >> > >> > > > >-- > >gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > > > > > > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list