Re: [gentoo-user] Knock on wood

[Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>]

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On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:20:34 -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.
> >
> > make 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.
> 
> But it doesn't do it the way that I do.  I have used it a few times but
> it didn't work like I do manually.

It sounds like you don't have a suitable LOCALVERSION setting in your
config. Here it names each kernel vmlinuz-version-localversion.


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Neil Bothwick

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