Re: [gentoo-user] Knock on wood

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:37:44 -0500, Dale wrote:
>
>   
>> I do it this way.  I keep at least two working kernels in /boot.  If I
>> need to, I can edit the grub boot line to boot the old kernel if the new
>> one doesn't work.  I do NOT use the make install thing.  I do mine
>> manually and name them in my own little way to know what kernel version
>> it is and what version it is locally.
>>     
>
> maske install does that for you, it also sets up the vmlinuz and
> vmlinuz.old symlinks so you don't need to mess with your GRUB config.
>
>   
>>  also copy the .config over with the same name.
>>     
>
> It does that for you too :)
>
>
>   

But it doesn't do it the way that I do.  I have used it a few times but
it didn't work like I do manually.

Dale

:-)  :-)