On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 9:02 AM Caveman Al Toraboran <toraboracave...@protonmail.com> wrote: > > what one doesn't use grub? >
None that I'm aware of, but I use grub so I haven't gone looking. Like I said, I used to do it this way and get why, but since doing it the new grub way has made my life easier than fighting it with some side benefits, I'm doing it that way. Now, if you're using a tool that requires manually editing config files every time make install dumps a version number into the various filenames, I completely sympathize with wanting to avoid this. Oh, one thing you might consider is symlinks assuming your bootloader supports them. Then genkernel/make/whatever can create fancy filenames as much as they want, and you can just symlink /boot/vmlinuz to whatever you want to start up and so on. I have no idea what bootloaders support symlinks on what filesystems - I know they tend to be really simple tools so I wouldn't take this for granted. It would be trivial to test - just create a symlink of a kernel in your existing /boot and copy/paste your existing menu option to add a new one that references the symlink instead of the existing kernel, and see if it boots... -- Rich
