From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MbE4v-0002Z9-Jl for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:41:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CAB85E01D5; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:41:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 984F9E01D5 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:41:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zaphod.digimed.co.uk (zaphod.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D0E37470F83 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:41:18 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:41:13 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Knock on wood Message-ID: <20090812144113.0291806d@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4A82C5A8.5060107@gmail.com> References: <7bef1f890908112213r5a7e08a4k7703ca14a9d9bcfb@mail.gmail.com> <20090812091028.GA4887@ca.inter.net> <4A82AADF.70600@gmail.com> <4A82C5A8.5060107@gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2cvs16 (GTK+ 2.16.5; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/PixK4k1Nf22napK+DulxIih"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 27cd707b-c149-4020-9452-1114c9218f3e X-Archives-Hash: 1f878c3ec51d6afe87d0367e53efaf97 --Sig_/PixK4k1Nf22napK+DulxIih Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:37:44 -0500, Dale wrote: > I do it this way. I keep at least two working kernels in /boot. If I > need to, I can edit the grub boot line to boot the old kernel if the new > one doesn't work. I do NOT use the make install thing. I do mine > manually and name them in my own little way to know what kernel version > it is and what version it is locally. maske install does that for you, it also sets up the vmlinuz and vmlinuz.old symlinks so you don't need to mess with your GRUB config. > also copy the .config over with the same name. It does that for you too :) --=20 Neil Bothwick OK, I'm confused. More than usual, that is. --Sig_/PixK4k1Nf22napK+DulxIih Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkqCxn4ACgkQum4al0N1GQN/owCcCiBX/qMkDRaqK0C8HH36KHwi HgMAnRoGsJF4jobIUkBoFAh5NML1dap5 =v3CU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/PixK4k1Nf22napK+DulxIih--