On Freitag 06 Februar 2009, Roy Wright wrote: > Howdy, > > Setting up a new system and want to do the simple grub setup where I > have grub menu of: > > * Current Gentoo Kernel (/boot/vmlinuz) > * Previous Gentoo Kernel (/boot/vmlinuz.old) > * Gentoo 2.6.28-r1 (/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-gentoo-r1) > > Then when I rebuild the kernel I can use the following command: > > $ make && make modules_install && make install > > The make install should handle moving /boot/vmlinuz to /boot/vmlinuz.old > and copying the current image to /boot/vmlinuz. > > I found what I think is the instructions I used before: > > http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Kernel/Installing > > which basically say to emerge debianutils > > The problem I'm seeing is that "make install" is including the version > number in the vmlinuz filenames: > > # ls -1 /boot > System.map-2.6.28-gentoo-r1 > System.map-2.6.28-gentoo-r1.old > boot > config-2.6.28-gentoo-r1 > config-2.6.28-gentoo-r1.old > grub > vmlinuz-2.6.28-gentoo-r1 > vmlinuz-2.6.28-gentoo-r1.old > > > Any ideas or better instructions for getting the versionless vmlinuz files?
create them once and you have them in the future. also make all modules_install install is shorter and gives you the same result.
