On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 09:07:30 -0500, Dale wrote: > > Seriously though, why not use make install? That way you know the > > right files get copied and given the expected names.
> Because I name my kernel and config the same thing. make install also copies your config to /boot, with a matching name. > I also don't like > the way it does that link thingy it does. It only does that if you already have the links, i.e. it updates them, not creates them.. > 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. > 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? ;-) -- Neil Bothwick Feminism: the radical notion that women are people.
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