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 1F9r0b-0006p0-Fp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 21:49:53 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1GLl4Xi007810; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 21:47:04 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1GLeBiT015753 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 21:40:11 GMT Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1F9qrC-0000IN-QS for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 21:40:11 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1F9qr0-00053F-Lw for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 22:39:58 +0100 Received: from 213-162-120-196.michae422.adsl.metronet.co.uk ([213.162.120.196]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 22:39:58 +0100 Received: from michaelkintzios by 213-162-120-196.michae422.adsl.metronet.co.uk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 22:39:58 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Mick Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 21:40:46 +0000 Message-ID: References: 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-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213-162-120-196.michae422.adsl.metronet.co.uk User-Agent: KNode/0.9.3 Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: e8a6cb44-e7a3-4753-b909-2afa2629eb5b X-Archives-Hash: c370d9da7fe5a4f5c490daf4afcceb29 John Jolet wrote: > > > > 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. 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? -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list