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 1MbI9c-0000MH-3Z for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:02:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E3830E006F; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:02:07 +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 5B407E006F for ; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:02:07 +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 C8B0F3FD0CB for ; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:02:06 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:02:02 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Knock on wood Message-ID: <20090812190202.5be6537d@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4A82CFB2.2040101@gmail.com> References: <7bef1f890908112213r5a7e08a4k7703ca14a9d9bcfb@mail.gmail.com> <20090812091028.GA4887@ca.inter.net> <4A82AADF.70600@gmail.com> <4A82C5A8.5060107@gmail.com> <20090812144113.0291806d@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <4A82CFB2.2040101@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_/byuuL_7uuswxYf0_mK=qo6L"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 230162b2-2db9-41e0-9cff-2b75c84de327 X-Archives-Hash: 519db971046a258099f4214be91206f4 --Sig_/byuuL_7uuswxYf0_mK=qo6L Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. >=20 > 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. --=20 Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 21: "Now, then ..." --Sig_/byuuL_7uuswxYf0_mK=qo6L Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkqDA54ACgkQum4al0N1GQOqFgCgqDULhkWB7UpmG1crly0k1ld5 Q0UAn3aiXALCOIb0pL6PJjpoq49nYa2E =K135 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/byuuL_7uuswxYf0_mK=qo6L--