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* [gentoo-user] Do I need the vmlinuz symbolic link with Grub?
@ 2005-08-31  2:25 99% Daevid Vincent
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From: Daevid Vincent @ 2005-08-31  2:25 UTC (permalink / raw
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Somehow net-wireless/madwifi-driver has broken on me (0.1_pre20050420-r1),
so I thought I'd recompile it. No luck. So I thought, maybe my kernel source
was different than my actual kernel (2.6.10-gentoo-r6), so I ran: 
"make bzImage modules modules_install"

Copied and renamed the bzImage file over to /boot and all that jazz.

But I don't think I'm getting the right kernel as the date for my kernel is
today, but my vmlinuz is older.

How is that symlink created? And how is the vmlinuz-2.6.10-gentoo-r6
created? What happens if I rm that symlink or the file? Is my system
unbootable?

locutus ~ # ll /boot
total 9896
drwxr-xr-x   5 root root    1024 Aug 30 18:54 .
drwxr-xr-x  21 root root    4096 Aug  2 19:31 ..
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root root      27 Jul 21 19:55 System.map ->
System.map-2.6.10-gentoo-r6
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 1097083 Jul 21 19:55 System.map-2.6.10-gentoo-r6
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root       1 Sep  4  2004 boot -> .
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root root      34 Jul 21 19:56 config ->
config-kernel-2.6.10-gentoo-r6-cpu
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   34887 Aug 30 12:16
config-kernel-2.6.10-gentoo-r6-cpu
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  602620 Nov 14  2004 fbsplash-emergence-1024x768
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 1267876 Nov 17  2004 fbsplash-emergence-1600x1200
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 2262456 Apr 12 23:19 fbsplash.tgz
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root    1024 Jul  7 10:53 grub
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  172826 Aug 18  2004 initrd-Emergance-1280x1024
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  101494 Jun 15  2004 initrd-gentoo-1280x1024
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  150334 Jun 15  2004 initrd-matrix-1280x1024
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 2171358 Aug 30 12:16 kernel-2.6.10-gentoo-r6-cpu
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   41895 Feb 27  2004 splash.initrd
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root root      24 Jul 21 19:55 vmlinuz ->
vmlinuz-2.6.10-gentoo-r6
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 2164025 Jul 21 19:55 vmlinuz-2.6.10-gentoo-r6

I don't see any mention of vmlinuz in my grub.conf file:

default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

title Gentoo Linux (2.6.10r6) [resume framebuffer splash 1600 CPU]
        root=(hd0,0)
        kernel=(hd0,0)/boot/kernel-2.6.10-gentoo-r6-cpu ro root=/dev/hda3
video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,1600x1200-16@60 splash=silent,theme:emergence
CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 hdb=ide-scsi resume=/dev/hda6 pmdisk=/dev/hda6
netdev=5,0xec80,eth0
        initrd (hd0,0)/boot/fbsplash-emergence-1600x1200


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