Re: [gentoo-user] When did bzImage move?

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Sonntag 01 Februar 2009, Dale wrote:
>   
>> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>>     
>>> On Sonntag 01 Februar 2009, Dale wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I just rebuilt a newer kernel and noticed something.  It seems bzImage
>>>> has moved from arch/i386/boot/bzImage to arch/x86/boot/bzImage.  When
>>>> did this happen?  Is x86 the same as i386?
>>>>         
>>> yes. They merged the '386' and the amd64/x86_64 architecture into x86.
>>>
>>> And it happend a couple of kernel versions ago.
>>>       
>> OK.  At least I ain't going crazy.  Whew, that was close.
>>
>>     
>>>> I'm just wanting to make sure I am not going to blow up something when I
>>>> boot that thing.
>>>>         
>>> why do you care anyway? Just install debianutils and use make install.
>>>       
>> I like to copy mine manually.  I dunno, I just do.  I'm weird that way.
>> I also have a unique way of naming my kernels so I can keep up with
>> which is which.
>>     
>
> well, you can always put the name in the config - and let make install do the 
> copy. That way you get a nice vmlinuz symlink to the latest kernel and 
> vmlinuz.old to the older one - and you never have to touch grub.conf again.
>
>   

But that would only allow you to have two kernels laying around.  Right
now I have these:

root@smoker / # ls /boot/bzImage-2*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2355440 Jan 31 18:52 /boot/bzImage-2-28-r8-1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2460088 Jan  2 20:13 /boot/bzImage-2.6.23-r8-7
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2288336 Dec 30 07:49 /boot/bzImage-2.6.27-r7-1
root@smoker / #

I just cleaned it out the other day but sometimes I have 6 or 8 of them
in there, especially when I am testing stuff.  Make install just isn't
my cup of tea.  Maybe one day.  You may also notice it took me 7 tries
on one of them before I got it right.  I haven't rebooted yet to test
out the .27 version.  It sort of got left out.

Dale

:-)  :-)