Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade problem

["Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto" <please.no.spam.here@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 8:56 PM, David Relson <relson@osagesoftware.com> wrote:
> Hello Dirk,
>
> Thanks for taking the time to reply.  The combination of gentoo-sources
> and genkernel has been working quite well for the 2 yrs I've been
> running Gentoo.  It's convenient to have grub.conf auto-magically
> updated and that's not been an issue.
You don't need to edit grub.conf at all.
"make install" automatically updates the symlinks in /boot/
For me, the kernel update process is:
emerge -a1v sys-kernel/vanilla-sources
cd /usr/src/linux
// I usually issue make defconfig to start with a fresh config. But if
you skip make defconfig, the following command will start with your
old config from /boot/config
make menuconfig
make
make install modules_install
//The above command automatically copies the kernel image, System.map
and .config to /boot and updates the /boot/vmlinuz, /boot/vmlinuz.old,
/boot/config, /boot/config.old, /boot/System.map, /boot/System.map.old
symlinks. It also copies the modules to /lib/modules
//No need for genkernel, no need to edit grub.conf
*reboot
*delete obsolete modules in /lib/modules, and obsolete files in /boot
*By the way, before i delete obsolete config file in /boot, i back it
up in a oldconfigs.tar.lzma compressed archive.