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 1F9qAf-0001FQ-11 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:56:13 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1GKpO81024093; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:51:24 GMT Received: from lmfilto02.st1.spray.net (lmfilto02.st1.spray.net [212.78.202.66]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1GKiqEu023337 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:44:52 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lmfilto02.st1.spray.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1181A40B3CD for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 17:05:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lmcodec04.st1.spray.net ([212.78.202.209]) by localhost (lmfilto02.st1.spray.net [212.78.202.32]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 02028-08 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 17:05:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lmcodec04.st1.spray.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lmcodec04.st1.spray.net (Postfix) with SMTP id C26D8CF901 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 17:05:25 +0000 (GMT) Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=lycos.co.uk; h=From:Subject; b=GC12UrliX32RBJ5OIdgFcUkHEsPQZAqdmVN/qjEyfslD3N1TxPyY7pPTXwDvUenPPKobvzlpa4UZrdnpTLppbX5UH5gh7VO+ymjEDoV/svP9TUoh+QvuYy1QFOJFHEb9HjPhH6UYJV69MlRzBgCqYYaea7KZyGQbadqedzszhBw=; From: "Michael Kintzios" To: Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 17:05:24 -0000 Message-ID: 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-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 In-Reply-To: <20060216161027.3c0767e6@hactar.digimed.co.uk> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at spray.net X-Archives-Salt: 63a68e70-c38a-49fb-b3b6-bfd2d6303192 X-Archives-Hash: b8a7110467757697bfdca9c89aeb7e42 > -----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 . . . -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list