From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LTplw-0005tA-5M for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 03:46:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D9B4EE03D3; Mon, 2 Feb 2009 03:46:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from yw-out-1718.google.com (yw-out-1718.google.com [74.125.46.156]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B66F7E03D3 for ; Mon, 2 Feb 2009 03:46:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yw-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 5so488666ywm.46 for ; Sun, 01 Feb 2009 19:46:54 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=atQP5vK0PLEaVKMjbj6T3//y8GTyXtfZAkL2Eg/g25A=; b=eBzH9sqUAOGnkKaIJbMW7qv/uP5OCXLn6QgruFtWHyb9YGx1t+RXFCEboV8V5btmS/ sTI9H4OsBlpgPVL6L+ZaCT1YTtajpMnlfFiRCPtA+b3oqJAJEzBXySeJToOlZL6G6NYP r8Zj5+dGsRLgVgQZuyz/7MOC6VjLZtqE35osQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=KxZ8SULs0vew4SARUKALdHKDdlQeiHFIKeXxk2oSpdX4Ek4dsNqOdD7OE9YA9ObiTO 053xLq3YpBpVS88nqNojWl9lR10dhsUvz7vkWI/BKDyWXB1yVPFShaT4ofB4NaDLFImM De6aYgnHarNo57lnpMJekBaG+MyMTDdeKfHeo= Received: by 10.64.243.19 with SMTP id q19mr2418830qbh.50.1233546414258; Sun, 01 Feb 2009 19:46:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?4.230.105.174? (dialup-4.230.105.174.Dial1.Houston1.Level3.net [4.230.105.174]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id s31sm5912687qbs.24.2009.02.01.19.46.51 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 01 Feb 2009 19:46:53 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <49866CA8.3000402@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 21:46:48 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081227 SeaMonkey/1.1.14 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] When did bzImage move? References: <49850BBC.9060302@gmail.com> <200902010347.51639.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <498614F3.6070208@konstantinhansen.de> <5bdc1c8b0902011337u5b4b4c66j5fcbcc3db779ae8b@mail.gmail.com> <49861C4D.6010505@gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0902011508k1f8f710cm950c0daf7f520651@mail.gmail.com> <20090202010543.304d836f@krikkit> <6F28BC94-47F2-4B41-A9ED-D025AF28FC57@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <6F28BC94-47F2-4B41-A9ED-D025AF28FC57@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 1965da3d-4506-4f14-9e66-fe56c5bc97a8 X-Archives-Hash: 9a7d7a1636d4bc89342857980e639230 Stroller wrote: > > On 2 Feb 2009, at 01:05, Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On Sun, 1 Feb 2009 15:08:25 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >>> Basically I build the kernel using make && make modules_install and >>> then copy the kernel by hand using >>> >>> cp arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage /boot/bzImage-2.6.27-gentoo-r8 >>> >>> or whatever the kernel is. I add that to grub.conf and I'm done. works >>> for me. >> >> Four commands plus some editing, which could contain an error making the >> kernel unbootable. The alternative s one command >> >> make all modules_install install >> >> Which also, as a nice bonus, backs up your kernel config too. > > Does this not also add the system.map file & a couple of others to > /boot ? > > I think I tried this &/or genkernel & when I looked at /boot I found > they'd littered the place with clutter. > > I hope you won't be offended, but the amount of junk files this added > made me want to barf. > > I have avoided any such "complications" since, considering I don't > consider copying a file & editing grub.conf to be anything of a > complication myself. > > To guard against unbootable kernels I have a bzImage.old which is set > as fallback. To guard against human error when editing grub.conf the > bzImage.old is the first (0th?) entry in the list, and finally - lest > things go really pyriform - I have a KVM-IP. > > > On 2 Feb 2009, at 01:17, Tom wrote: >>> Basically I build the kernel using make && make modules_install and >>> then copy the kernel by hand >> >> Good god. So I'm not alone in being a dumbass :) > > What they said. > > Stroller. > > > I think I read somewhere that system.map file is no longer needed, unless you want to set up things in a "odd" way. Is that correct? Dale :-) :-)