Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel build no update grub

[Chris Cox <yeahsowhat@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday 16 November 2005 22:24, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
> > Updating the kernel today, I referenced that piece of the
> > documentation and borrowed this command from it:
> >
> >  genkernel --bootloader=grub all
> >
> > However, not only did it not update grub.conf but grub.conf
> > disappeared entirely following the successful build.
>
> Let me tell this story again briefly... This was quite a knuckleheaded
> move on my part.  Its been so long since I updated my kernel, I forgot
> that I switched to lilo some mnths ago....  So, er I misinfomed the
> genkernel tool.
>
> I'm not sure that should have made any difference in what it did to
> grub.conf or not..

It doesn't make any difference trust me.  I tried genkernel a few months ago 
with the --bootloader=grub option and it it removed everything in my 
grub.conf as well ; the file was 0 bytes afterwards. Lucky for me, I keep 
backups.
  I've never really liked Genkernel though and don't use it. Most of the time 
when I update my kernel it is pretty quick and easy:

I turn on the symlink USEflag which makes a new symlink of my new kernel.
So, after I emerge any new kernel source I just cd /usr/src/linux then 
zcat /proc/config.gz >.config  which copies the config from my current kernel 
then run make oldconfig (any new changes will prompt you); then make 
menuconfig if I want to change anything, otherwise make all install 
install_modules

Then just reboot.  I already have grub configured to use either the vmlinuz 
symlink in /boot which points to my latest kernel image or the fallback  
vmlinuz.old which is my previous kernel image.  The make install copies these 
files into /boot automaticly.


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Chris
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