Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 1:32 PM, KH <gentoo-u...@konstantinhansen.de> wrote: > >> Volker Armin Hemmann schrieb: >> >>> 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. >>> >>> >> I am running amd64 using 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 and in arch there still is x86 >> an x86_64. Am I doing anything wrong or did I just missanderstand you? >> >> kh >> > > cd in there and look around. x86_64 only has a boot directory and when > you look at the bzImage file in it you find it's a link to > ../../x86/boot/bzImage so what's happening is all the files are under > x86 but if you say 'I built AMD64' and do cp arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage > you are really getting the file under x86. > > Hope this helps, > Mark > > >
Well, when I tried to copy the old way, it just copied the link itself, then when I looked in /boot, it was red and really upset. I had to copy the kernel with Konqeror to get it into /boot, after finding the stupid thing. Don't get mad at me, every time I copied it it was a broken link. Sometimes you got to do what you got to do. :/ Dale :-) :-)
