From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A177138CD0 for ; Sat, 23 May 2015 00:55:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2FE2FE0975; Sat, 23 May 2015 00:55:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-lb0-f174.google.com (mail-lb0-f174.google.com [209.85.217.174]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D5C2CE096A for ; Sat, 23 May 2015 00:55:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by lbbuc2 with SMTP id uc2so22832327lbb.2 for ; Fri, 22 May 2015 17:55:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=WzDcptKrd9ZUvW/zTqPsAjVAeysbR4rBth73KLzSods=; b=zH2r6S5WmkMT54juRnFwivzwb4ANn+sB/a4zWMLPbpwUTXyYIorrseNHseFYAOqYCX 5L62MOQfFaskVWl/YO1nx4DJ615DVcgV6CZOJdv3rDM7czICbMhIloOoQ5vy7mwhmTDD FQg+C7x9spIBuyCQQBs0v4ihmHCzrYg0+Jd9ghPg7INa6hFUF3RtqHFGj6loQSkvB+Wk KiDUl37/9+txTylMgmf6n+To9Ylzxw8Lx9mfkiWVoh8HugO1t6mI94ZYLWSog8iORDTp OyNx40EDz/QscGOYeUBx8+J0hZrvviLAyUlkv+ppEIKawqQLjH8AMpsaYXmpPNRHxCNw Bbew== 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 X-Received: by 10.152.87.13 with SMTP id t13mr8781579laz.66.1432342539431; Fri, 22 May 2015 17:55:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.152.125.194 with HTTP; Fri, 22 May 2015 17:55:39 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20150522235818.3bb17e50@digimed.co.uk> References: <555FA801.80101@gmail.com> <20150522231306.62cef216@digimed.co.uk> <201505222329.42029.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20150522235818.3bb17e50@digimed.co.uk> Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 20:55:39 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [~and64] Headsup for googled the previous one to vmlinu-chrome users From: Tom H To: Gentoo User Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: ba86dec2-b47a-4a91-8a77-dc774f789c3b X-Archives-Hash: 1d66e3d800cad7e0f5b394397bd7ffd5 On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 6:58 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 22 May 2015 23:29:40 +0100, Mick wrote: >>> >>> make install does it exactly the way you are doing it, but faster and >>> less prone to error. >> >> Hmm ... I may have used it the wrong way quite a few years ago, but it >> would only keep two kernels at a time or something like that. That >> made me carry on copying kernel files into boot manually. In this way >> at least I know where I put them and what options I pass on to them. > > make install installs the kernel it just made. It doesn't, and can't, > touch other kernels. The only change it makes to /boot beyond copying > three files there is to adjust the symlinks if they are already present. > > I've never understood the approach of trusting the makefile to configure > your kernel, compile it, compile any number of modules and install all > those modules, but when it comes to copying one file to /boot, that has > to be done manually because the makefile can't be trusted to get things > right. "/sbin/installkernel" renames the already-installed vmlinuz and System.map if it's installing the same version of the kernel.