Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted my kernel .config

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 23.01.2009, 01:53 -0600 schrieb ext Dale:
>
>   
>> I'll show this just in case it will give someone ides.
>>     
>
> Here's another approach:
>
> % ll /boot
> insgesamt 9644
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       1 17. Jan 2006  boot -> ./
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    1024 21. Mai 2008  grub/
> drwx------ 2 root root   12288 11. Okt 2005  lost+found/
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4892720 22. Jan 14:25 vmlinux-2.6.28.1.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4892272 16. Jan 15:32 vmlinux-2.6.28.gz
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      19 22. Jan 14:26 vmlinux.gz ->
> vmlinux-2.6.28.1.gz
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      17 22. Jan 14:26 vmlinux.old.gz ->
> vmlinux-2.6.28.gz
>
> No System.map (what's it good for, anyway?)
> No .config (it's in /proc/config.gz).
> No need to edit grub.conf as the symlinks are updated using a small
> script (which also removes old module directories from /lib/modules).
> No initrd as an embedded initramfs is used (hence the size of the
> kernels).
>
> Bye...
>
> 	Dirk
>   

But if a kernel gets corrupted or accidentally deleted, there will be no
/proc/config.gz since the kernel won't boot.  I have that turned on here
to but I'm not going to put all my eggs in that one basket.  I couldn't
write a script anyway plus I only update kernels once in a blue moon
anyway.  I'm still running 2.6.23 right now.  The new one is compiled
and ready but I just haven't rebooted in a while.

I was wondering about that system.map thing.  It's been there a long
while.  I just redone my install and I only saved /boot, make.conf,
world and a couple other files, plus my /home naturally.

Dale

:-)  :-)