> From: Mike Edenfield <kut...@kutulu.org> > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 4:58:54 PM > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Knock on wood > On 8/12/2009 4:19 PM, Stroller wrote: > > On 12 Aug 2009, at 15:20, Dale wrote: > >>> ... > >>> maske install does that for you, it also sets up the vmlinuz and > >>> vmlinuz.old symlinks so you don't need to mess with your GRUB config. > >> > >> But it doesn't do it the way that I do. I have used it a few times but > >> it didn't work like I do manually. > > +1 > > I don't know why anyone would choose to compile & install the kernel any > > way other than manually. It's only a handful of commands, after all. > $ make && make modules_install > $ cp arch/x86/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-hardened-r1-wombat-4 > $ cp .config /boot/config-2.6.28-hardened-r1-wombat-4 > $ cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.6.28-hardened-r1-wombat-4 > $ cd /boot > $ mv vmlinuz vmlinuz.old > $ mv System.map System.map.old > $ mv config config.old > $ ln -sf vmlinuz-2.6.28-hardened-r1-wombat-4 vmlinuz > $ ln -sf config-2.6.28-hardened-r1-wombat-4 config > $ ln -sf System.map-2.6.28-hardened-r1-wombat-4 System.map > vs. > $ make && make modules_install && make install > I can't see any reason *not* to use make install, especially when its > just doing exactly the same thing you are doing manually with about 100 > times as much typing.
$ make install supposes you are installing to the standard location. I forget why off hand - probably due to the conversion to gentoo on the machine a while back - but I'm installing to /boot/grub, not /boot. So far as I am aware (I could be wrong), your method doesn't support that. Ben
