From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MbEgz-0004p8-Rg for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:20:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0F669E04CA; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:20:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f201.google.com (mail-yw0-f201.google.com [209.85.211.201]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E62A9E04CA for ; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:20:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh39 with SMTP id 39so45842ywh.32 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 07:20:38 -0700 (PDT) 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=BwcRPt0MFOiuqq2uzTOY5n/Dov5GOuBk8dM7sjqCnBI=; b=N/OJAqjBUFTiDN/yfcqrgZ6YrpswHf+uJFnsuP26GJi/sIXQbI120Z0ke7fUTbEf3R dFd+VIhBrtaN1NV/okCrUnFJRvKRwRjwJWkWiTr6wY01eO/bAur3Vq3NEUrgBaRFJUfM lEofI/XxVnHGVVAzzjI45oM4LwIFoUjiGM/9s= 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=kLuFLaWA9M+UvZLjC7mwQVKVcaMSKBjIqYIaVt5l/1iDJH2WkYCkY3SnAGi2tWBmEl btxw9j+dNPBtDfTdTCtEgxlPLTmY1pXcrv6m7SW+CCiuZMc0vjA4seSzBR4sMgaJZaBa t1rhYThFCbzo02rDT+I4gDQD4c0qPxlMGwK3U= Received: by 10.90.26.3 with SMTP id 3mr74873agz.30.1250086838542; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 07:20:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?64.89.164.110? (r164h110.dixie-net.com [64.89.164.110]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 40sm2592024aga.78.2009.08.12.07.20.36 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 12 Aug 2009 07:20:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A82CFB2.2040101@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:20:34 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.22) Gecko/20090628 SeaMonkey/1.1.17 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] Knock on wood References: <7bef1f890908112213r5a7e08a4k7703ca14a9d9bcfb@mail.gmail.com> <20090812091028.GA4887@ca.inter.net> <4A82AADF.70600@gmail.com> <4A82C5A8.5060107@gmail.com> <20090812144113.0291806d@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090812144113.0291806d@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7a22648a-498c-4002-8e1b-f9a5a04f548e X-Archives-Hash: 6fcc4d7e9ae388af827fe01a054bc273 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 :-) :-)