On Sonntag 01 Februar 2009, Dale wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Sonntag 01 Februar 2009, Dale wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I just rebuilt a newer kernel and noticed something. It seems bzImage > >> has moved from arch/i386/boot/bzImage to arch/x86/boot/bzImage. When > >> did this happen? Is x86 the same as i386? > > > > yes. They merged the '386' and the amd64/x86_64 architecture into x86. > > > > And it happend a couple of kernel versions ago. > > OK. At least I ain't going crazy. Whew, that was close. > > >> I'm just wanting to make sure I am not going to blow up something when I > >> boot that thing. > > > > why do you care anyway? Just install debianutils and use make install. > > I like to copy mine manually. I dunno, I just do. I'm weird that way. > I also have a unique way of naming my kernels so I can keep up with > which is which.
well, you can always put the name in the config - and let make install do the copy. That way you get a nice vmlinuz symlink to the latest kernel and vmlinuz.old to the older one - and you never have to touch grub.conf again.
