On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 22:54:26 +0000, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > you are just wrongly assuming that they are mutually > exclusive... > > seriously, one could have kernels named, > without versions, as: > > vmlinuz > vmlinuz-older > vmlinuz-older2 > . > . > . > vmlinuz-olderN > > this way, new kernel installation, and rotation, > will be decoupled from the boot loader's configs, > effectively removing any housekeeping for the > boot loader.
make install will create symlinks for vmlinuz and vmlinuz.old to the latest and previous kernel, doing much of what you need. You need /boot to be on a filesystem that supports symlinks and ISTR that it only updates the symlinks if already present but doesn't create them from scratch. -- Neil Bothwick A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance from Mom.
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