On Sonntag 01 Februar 2009, Dale wrote: > 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: >
no, you can have as many kernels as you want. But there is a vmlinuz symlink to the latest and vmlinuz.old symlink to the previous installed one.
