On Saturday 30 Jun 2012 23:01:40 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 09:07:30 -0500, Dale wrote:
> > It seems to expect to keep > > only two kernels around and I'm real bad to have more than that, > > sometimes way more than that. > > No it doesn't, it only installs kernels, not uninstalls them. Sure, there > are only two symlinks but those are less relevant with GRUB2 since > grub2-mkconfig creates menu entries for all your kernels anyway. Aha! This will be useful for me. I have not used make install because I found that it would override previous kernels of mine that I might needed to revert to. I remember you (or someone as knowledgeable) had mentioned of a way to automate the linkage and naming of vmlinuz so that older kernels were retained and versioned, but I never went as far as experimenting with it. > > Plus, if I do it myself, I know what I am > > doing. If I use make install, I don't know if something was changed in > > how it does it. > > So you trust make to compile and link hundreds of object files and create > the kernels and modules. You also trust it to copy all the modules, but > you just want to copy that one last file manually so you can pretend you > are in control? ;-) Well, he and I are at least in control of this copying and naming actions? ;-) -- Regards, Mick
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