Something which I havn't found any explicit elaboration of in the documentation...
The convention in the Linux/gentoo filesystem seems to be to have a unique directory for each installed kernel in /usr/src, with a symbolic link to the 'current' kernel directory named /usr/src/linux.. The question is - is this just a user convenience, or will parts of the system break if it is not maintained correctly? The reason I ask is that if I have several kernels which I have configured grub to allow me to select from at boot time, where should this symlink point? The newest kernel? An experimental one being worked on? The one most recently booted from. If the latter case then it is likely to be wrong for a finite period following boot until the system has come up far enough to allow me to update it. Anyone know what is likely to break (if anything) if I boot from a kernel other than the one which corresponds to the directory /usr/src/linux points to, and neglect to update the link? Does it direct (for instance) the target directory for an emerge of new kernel components? Or does it perhaps have to point to the kernel being built during any recompile? Regards, DigbyT -- Digby R. S. Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digbyt.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
