On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Sebastian Beßler <sebast...@darkmetatron.de> wrote: > Am 08.11.2011 14:11, schrieb Pandu Poluan: > >> Oh, and it also auto-modifies grub.cfg for me :-D > > > Why modify grub.cfg? > > I have symlinks in /boot > > vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-3.1.0-gentoo > and > vmlinuz.old -> vmlinuz-3.1.0-rc6-00105-g279b1e0 > > who automagic get updated when ever I run make install. > > The corresponding part of grub.conf is > > title Gentoo Linux (OpenRC) > root (hd0,1) > kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 radeon.agpmode=-1 > video=radeon:1440x900 zcache > > and > > title Gentoo Linux.old (OpenRC) > root (hd0,1) > kernel /vmlinuz.old root=/dev/sda3 radeon.agpmode=-1 > video=radeon:1440x900 zcache > > That is all, no changing grub.conf and always the latest kernel.
I've used the same method as you "forever" and it works great, and always easy fail-safe to boot previous kernel in case I got something wrong on the new one.
