From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LTTDp-0007D4-V9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 01 Feb 2009 03:42:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DAB38E04CC; Sun, 1 Feb 2009 03:42:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.185]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94B82E04CC for ; Sun, 1 Feb 2009 03:42:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c7so211711nfi.26 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:42:11 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=B2544wWROm09pFYcW5xcAKeox2H+GZCI5RDVZJkmOa8=; b=xcvZdnDosaY9ESrgR9s64IGV/sRuYd+o11uR9Yjf5F1+UrIAMOj0oEem8CCSNdmZoX hoUnbscySKJhg+sWumzPxl2ti8rdKt4dTraPkNHZHA4pEYk/01D9U/n9L+D7BZDhm4mo zvP8HIZmEC99e25nmJaioObb7G7tL1b7JEurE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=cYzVQil7z9blLHwBQL5WIxrKuFU+f0ayeRmAOiTUe1b30hjmHrZarkCEJ2wiliFDjO uXP7CCPk66BSRw2dXjpR11iMGHES45F94oViT4UAxezgJRNF1hsCBuy8iVB30E/CWWGL kBCqHsaTcrNgQ4QVDGC/ccMuPMtA/TpPf3pVE= Received: by 10.210.81.3 with SMTP id e3mr3218479ebb.141.1233459731033; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:42:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from energy.localnet (energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.197.94]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 5sm6222929ewy.93.2009.01.31.19.42.10 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:42:10 -0800 (PST) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] When did bzImage move? Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 04:42:06 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.0 (Linux/2.6.27.13r4; KDE/4.2.0; x86_64; ; ) References: <49850BBC.9060302@gmail.com> <200902010402.18188.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <4985186C.2040001@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4985186C.2040001@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.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: <200902010442.07025.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 33ee9b50-9b14-4968-9d8b-8511b5026072 X-Archives-Hash: efa1e84d8abf3e20a56c51c01fee3a48 On Sonntag 01 Februar 2009, Dale wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Sonntag 01 Februar 2009, Dale wrote: > >> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >>> On Sonntag 01 Februar 2009, Dale wrote: > >>>> Hi, > >>>> > >>>> I just rebuilt a newer kernel and noticed something. It seems bzImage > >>>> has moved from arch/i386/boot/bzImage to arch/x86/boot/bzImage. When > >>>> did this happen? Is x86 the same as i386? > >>> > >>> yes. They merged the '386' and the amd64/x86_64 architecture into x86. > >>> > >>> And it happend a couple of kernel versions ago. > >> > >> OK. At least I ain't going crazy. Whew, that was close. > >> > >>>> I'm just wanting to make sure I am not going to blow up something when > >>>> I boot that thing. > >>> > >>> why do you care anyway? Just install debianutils and use make install. > >> > >> I like to copy mine manually. I dunno, I just do. I'm weird that way. > >> I also have a unique way of naming my kernels so I can keep up with > >> which is which. > > > > well, you can always put the name in the config - and let make install do > > the copy. That way you get a nice vmlinuz symlink to the latest kernel > > and vmlinuz.old to the older one - and you never have to touch grub.conf > > again. > > But that would only allow you to have two kernels laying around. Right > now I have these: > no, you can have as many kernels as you want. But there is a vmlinuz symlink to the latest and vmlinuz.old symlink to the previous installed one.