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 1RBtRN-0005bL-OX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 19:17:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4BEFA21C151; Thu, 6 Oct 2011 19:16:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 399C821C0B6 for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2011 19:15:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwg14 with SMTP id 14so4193201wwg.10 for ; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 12:15:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:organization :x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=+JjyRosBTJAku9i7MyHP0iCZ5NHcMDkyhyxUfd2elh4=; b=L9mYZyaB+ZX35M/2UZfysn/quh4w+sjUKyBZErwo7QkV2wGEPG28lfQT409WXqY3wx 9tY2j/IVNYI3lKFoeWsbRQCYmsrYhtGbG6rmC/sJlXskPU2a7K9372Ip6UH51DJ7rsMO pwNfhm25y7WLlN0sdwK5WRpIymOyDUNkFQ+b4= Received: by 10.216.221.81 with SMTP id q59mr1435296wep.19.1317928516323; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 12:15:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rohan.example.com ([196.215.144.38]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id a12sm4079770wbo.9.2011.10.06.12.15.13 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 06 Oct 2011 12:15:15 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 21:15:08 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is grub2 stable and who uses it? Message-ID: <20111006211508.47cbd812@rohan.example.com> In-Reply-To: <87d3ea2eqv.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <4E8AD6C4.7070901@gmail.com> <20111004110746.395635e0@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <87ty7m2shz.fsf@newsguy.com> <20111006145103.42fba05a@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <87d3ea2eqv.fsf@newsguy.com> Organization: Internet Solutions X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.8 (GTK+ 2.24.4; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: d20355fb2f6bdde0e03490cf34007c3d On Thu, 06 Oct 2011 12:48:08 -0500 Harry Putnam wrote: > Neil Bothwick writes: > > >> Also, its not clear how one would install a new kernel. Where to > >> put the information and so forth. > > > > See above. You don't put anything anywhere when installing a new > > kernel, just run grub-update and it will be found and added to the > > menu. At the same time, any old kernels you have deleted will be > > removed. > > Well now, that is an improvement. But surely the kernel needs to be > put on /boot? That's not a function of grub-install, it's a function of make install -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com