On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 09:29:01 -0500, Dale wrote: > > 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.
> Thing is, I already trust what I'm doing to work, as far as the copy > process etc. ;-) Plus, it's not something I do very often either. It > would be my luck that I'd run that script and it screw up not only the > new kernel but my old setup as well. It would be a pretty sad state of affairs if you couldn't trust yourself to be able to copy one file to /boot ;-) > I have to add, I still like the old grub since I could also add the > kernel entry myself, just to know it is done and will work. This new > thing still worries me. You can hand-configure GRUB2 too, there are even example files included. The main benefit of grub-mkconfig is to binary distros so they can automate the process when installing the distro or updating the kernel. > Don't get me started on that init thingy Don't worry, I know better than that! I won't mention HAL either :-) -- Neil Bothwick On the other hand, you have different fingers.
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