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 4.50) id 1Ecebf-00021g-S8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 07:54:56 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAH7s1Jx018789; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 07:54:01 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAH7o3u2011193 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 07:50:03 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.204]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EceWx-0001RT-0G for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 07:50:03 +0000 Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id v1so2021055nzb for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 23:50:03 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=FVs0DluR+DlZ0cbJJbdhKWOJ3nP2gmLQnZVB2K1nWsRRIoa1Pb9LaEUxnV1h+FUCRq5S4/tiID7y+kCBWw+ySJFJwRrurcpbRWlO66+uibrEkvHrs1VT4fO8DQ2cjq3sWEegfh7KoW+Ezh4ZlX+2RJpx87BoX19ZAGm1SIJ+ggg= Received: by 10.37.22.75 with SMTP id z75mr835704nzi; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 23:50:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from tx1 ( [24.250.185.18]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id m2sm1441084nzf.2005.11.16.23.50.02; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 23:50:02 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Cox To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel build no update grub Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 01:50:45 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <8764qsgrh7.fsf@newsguy.com> <874q6b52bu.fsf@newsguy.com> In-Reply-To: <874q6b52bu.fsf@newsguy.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200511170150.46082.yeahsowhat@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 7be9f7ec-24e7-4a6d-afb1-dbedd6a2f50a X-Archives-Hash: 6c002986c99d3e0483d4fc9000de76fe On Wednesday 16 November 2005 22:24, Harry Putnam wrote: > Harry Putnam 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. -- Chris Linux 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 01:39:55 up 21:54, 8 users, load average: 3.21, 2.61, 2.39 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list