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 1MbLeE-0006dZ-Me for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:46:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9EEC0E03DB; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:46:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from web65414.mail.ac4.yahoo.com (web65414.mail.ac4.yahoo.com [76.13.9.34]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 80249E03DB for ; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:46:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 60058 invoked by uid 60001); 12 Aug 2009 21:46:16 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1250113576; bh=6RsxfzihEvDq8bgxjkINdsS3f7FcDCRxUO16VHttEKU=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:References:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=vqdMBj5jpS+xaCW5I3pZbi8QRQ8ay7Whenk0UcrXHynArp5ETi8F5pXEExU5YGpRwzLIBBfj/im3M0pUDgsAM9Fb33PV4rK8V+SP0v/3FKOC6OV+kMrjNqQhmwNLKNRm07sqbk4XvVMoKaCmLMkX2igB4np9Wzek1FlAAb2QCDA= DomainKey-Signature:a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:References:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=6uYq/nwcSwxhRkpxtMILZPnmIdiZYMXDv4kGGGsa5MXxjlgtKgVPOWPnrwpEl9UYGkoSg4Ynli3sxrD1ffRvgMG/DPhKpstnsJ3iarVEEot81M2zV0hx/kBUjKYpCEaXAoEE9nQtYTL6MbZmkhWsB+7dywF1QJqxqiugWHLlxS4=; Message-ID: <532146.59293.qm@web65414.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: 4CfBSYEVM1kTyHrELTHDAyo7IVl6HUBTT2i0VwsDDlpff6YSsIcPUPeZwRoB9HPGS37u5eBrP8t0PFECS6ttgO_2rd9oklvttYNmDtFj0pPjpeXwhg9jvymQ8mQN81TvtK9U.FDJc7OOKVMcG7hOqiASlMcn7Xon9h8C3Jq7SeDBZm4EgLEJ7F9Bn0zUQXExKKZGAXO_guPVie7P.0W1Geeipo0WWTJJAxSd2bR0S6Pr8vdEYrfjuyVj26kQ9..6KGZwT7J9wa8Ecz6_H9_PFFYZ6xROKfZgHuRMxKahn6R7l.B9gzXZPKa38RJ_grs_jIABXC0m Received: from [12.52.185.66] by web65414.mail.ac4.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:46:16 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/1358.27 YahooMailWebService/0.7.338.2 References: <7bef1f890908112213r5a7e08a4k7703ca14a9d9bcfb@mail.gmail.com> <20090812091028.GA4887@ca.inter.net> <4A82AADF.70600@gmail.com> <4A82C5A8.5060107@gmail.com> <20090812144113.0291806d@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <4A82CFB2.2040101@gmail.com> <2EFD06B3-C78E-40C8-B136-7692161B11F0@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <4A832D0E.3070907@kutulu.org> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:46:16 -0700 (PDT) From: BRM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Knock on wood To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <4A832D0E.3070907@kutulu.org> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Archives-Salt: a822f930-dfa9-4733-bc8e-b6ab7650c7b8 X-Archives-Hash: 09f5f94eb4a839ae1f8dd63c0f341611 > From: Mike Edenfield > 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