On 2/16/06 11:05 AM, "Michael Kintzios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> 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.
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