Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > 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. > >
But that would only allow you to have two kernels laying around. Right now I have these: r...@smoker / # ls /boot/bzImage-2* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2355440 Jan 31 18:52 /boot/bzImage-2-28-r8-1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2460088 Jan 2 20:13 /boot/bzImage-2.6.23-r8-7 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2288336 Dec 30 07:49 /boot/bzImage-2.6.27-r7-1 r...@smoker / # I just cleaned it out the other day but sometimes I have 6 or 8 of them in there, especially when I am testing stuff. Make install just isn't my cup of tea. Maybe one day. You may also notice it took me 7 tries on one of them before I got it right. I haven't rebooted yet to test out the .27 version. It sort of got left out. Dale :-) :-)
