On 06/30/2012 05:50 AM, Dale wrote:
Thanks. Now more questions. I have read about this a few times but
never quite figured it out. I copy the bzImage and name it bzImage-*
because that is what it is named when I type make etc to build a
kernel. Is there a difference between bzImage and vmlinux? If it is,
is it safe to rename it like that or will it break something? If I need
a vmlinux kernel instead of a bzImage, where is that thing? I have
looked and I don't have one on mine here. Maybe I am missing
something. Google didn't find me anything either.
As someone else said, the spelling. For grub-mkconfig to recognize it
as a kernel
the default names should begin with "vmlinuz-" or "kernel-"
For my gentoo disk, I rename the bzImage to gentoo.<XYZ> where the XYZ
is the kernel
version number. I hand mung the grub.cfg (still legacy grub) in the
usual fashion.
I will probably migrate to grub2 pretty quick next time I play with the
gentoo install.
Grub2 grub-mkconfig os-prober method recognizes grub legacy configs and
builds proper
menuentry stanzas as needed.
I'm using multiple discs for booting my system. The first drive (BIOS
default) is a Win7 native,
but I use the BIOS "boot menu" options to usually boot grub2 from
another drive. This drive's grub.cfg
contains all of my linux installations, which are spread around 4
different drives.
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