Re: [gentoo-user] Knock on wood

[Mike Edenfield <kutulu@kutulu.org>]

On 8/12/2009 4:19 PM, Stroller wrote:
>
> On 12 Aug 2009, at 15:20, Dale wrote:
>>> ...
>>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>
> +1
>
> I don't know why anyone would choose to compile & install the kernel any
> way other than manually. It's only a handful of commands, after all.

$ make && make modules_install
$ cp arch/x86/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-hardened-r1-wombat-4
$ cp .config /boot/config-2.6.28-hardened-r1-wombat-4
$ cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.6.28-hardened-r1-wombat-4
$ cd /boot
$ mv vmlinuz vmlinuz.old
$ mv System.map System.map.old
$ mv config config.old
$ ln -sf vmlinuz-2.6.28-hardened-r1-wombat-4 vmlinuz
$ ln -sf config-2.6.28-hardened-r1-wombat-4 config
$ ln -sf System.map-2.6.28-hardened-r1-wombat-4 System.map

vs.

$ make && make modules_install && make install

I can't see any reason *not* to use make install, especially when its 
just doing exactly the same thing you are doing manually with about 100 
times as much typing.

--K