[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

[Mick <michaelkintzios@lycos.co.uk>]

John Jolet wrote:

> 
> 
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> On 2/16/06 11:05 AM, "Michael Kintzios" <michaelkintzios@lycos.co.uk>
> wrote:
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>> 
>>> -----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.

I am confused:  how many 'make install's are there?  Don't they 'all' do the
same?  Are we talking about a customised (hacked) make install here? 
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Regards,
Mick

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