On Nov 9, 2011 6:03 AM, "Paul Hartman" <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. >
Hmm... my email server's seem to be getting flaky... I never received Sebastian's... Anyways, back to topic: I experiment a lot with the kernels, so I timestamp them all, and my grub menu lists all kernels found in /boot, complete with their respective timestamps. That way,if a .config change I did on K-1 (current is K-0, K-1 is the one before current) only now proved to be flaky, I can 'roll back' to K-2 or earlier. Rgds,
