Re: [gentoo-user] Knock on wood

[BRM <bm_witness@yahoo.com>]

> From: Mike Edenfield <kutulu@kutulu.org>
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 4:58:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Knock on wood
> 
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.

$ make install

supposes you are installing to the standard location.
I forget why off hand - probably due to the conversion to gentoo on the machine a while back - but I'm installing to /boot/grub, not /boot.
So far as I am aware (I could be wrong), your method doesn't support that.

Ben