On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 03:33:24 -0500, Dale wrote: > If one of those should stop working or I buy something new and need to > add support for it, the new kernel will have a -2 on the end instead of > -1. I'm not sure on the -gentoo one. Thing is, I can boot the old > kernel of that version or even boot a older kernel if needed. It gives > me a lot of booting options. Maybe someone can figure out a way to make > those scripts name kernels that way?? > > I plan to clean older ones out eventually and I use uprecords to pick > what kernel are the most stable and pick the latest versions, usually > two maybe three, just to be sure I can boot something. I'll also add, I > name my config files the same as kernels and also those init thingys I > hate so much. The grub thingy requires the init thingy to have the same > names but the configs just make sense. ;-) > > If a script could do it that way, I might even use it. I've yet to hear > of one that does it tho.
make install does that, except the kernels are named vmlinuz-* rather then kernel-*. The LOCALVERSION settings in the kernel config help. I do the whole job with a script that boils down to [ -f .config ] || make oldconfig make all modules_install install || exit 1 dracut --some-opts grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg If I trust the makefile to build the entire operating system kernel, build all the modules it needs and copy all those modules to the correct locations, I don't see why I can't let it copy one more file to /boot. -- Neil Bothwick But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses. -- Jerome K. Jerome
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