From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1F9qKd-0003iJ-63 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 21:06:31 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1GL0P5n019158; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 21:00:25 GMT Received: from flower.jolet.net (cpe-24-27-31-221.austin.res.rr.com [24.27.31.221]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1GKmoPZ027311 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:48:50 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by flower.jolet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AB8E18035 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:48:47 -0600 (CST) Received: from flower.jolet.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (flower.jolet.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 23941-01-3 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:48:46 -0600 (CST) Received: from [192.168.1.51] (unknown [192.168.1.1]) by flower.jolet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8185A18033 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:48:46 -0600 (CST) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.2.1.051004 Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:48:53 -0600 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo From: John Jolet To: Message-ID: Thread-Topic: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo Thread-Index: AcYzOmV2pC08xp8tEdqm6wARJOP61A== In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at jolet.net X-Archives-Salt: 98df4b0f-c266-414a-9974-099dedcc2b93 X-Archives-Hash: 976d13cf5e19e93172760a6abbf8811a On 2/16/06 11:05 AM, "Michael Kintzios" wrote: > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:neil@digimed.co.uk] >> Sent: 16 February 2006 16:10 >> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org >> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the >> installation of Gentoo >> >>>> make install does exactly the same, and sets up the vmlinuz and >>>> vmlinuz.old symlinks to point to your new and previous kernel >>>> respectively, so you don't need to edit grub.conf. >>> >>> Hmm, it doesn't on my two boxen. :-( I do not have a vmlinuz, >>> System.map and config links. >>> >>> Do I have to first set up the symlinks manually? >> >> Looking as /sbin/installkernel, it doesn't appear that you >> have to create >> the links. Of course, you do have to make sure /boot is >> mounted first :) > > Yep, /boot is always mounted (just to be sure I won't forget it, I > always mount it before I even cd into /usr/src/linux). Running make && > make modules_install does *not* create any links in my /boot directory, > ever. Could it be that there's something wrong with my system(s) - at > least three installations have always behaved like this . . . No, make makes the bzImage under /usr/src/linux.....arch/.....boot And make modules_install installes the modules in /lib, I think. Neither of them touches /boot. I THINK there's a make install that's supposed to do some stuff for you, but I prefer to do those steps by hand. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list