On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:38:48 -0500, ABCD wrote: > To be precise, the config option CONFIG_LOCALVERSION appends a string to > the end of the kernel version, which installkernel uses to place the > kernel image.
You can get the same effect by creating a file called localversion
containing the string to add, which saves altering the kernel config. If
you make this a symlink to .version, you even get it incremented
automatically.
> If /boot/vmlinuz exists, then it is moved to /boot/vmlinuz.old, and a
> *symlink* from /boot/vmlinuz is created to "vmlinuz-${VERSION}". If
> /boot/vmlinuz did *not* exist before installation, then no symlink is
> created.
Instead, vmlinuz-${VERSION} is copied to vmlinuz.
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