On Fri, 22 May 2015 20:55:39 -0400, Tom H wrote:

> > I've never understood the approach of trusting the makefile to
> > configure your kernel, compile it, compile any number of modules and
> > install all those modules, but when it comes to copying one file
> > to /boot, that has to be done manually because the makefile can't be
> > trusted to get things right.  
> 
> "/sbin/installkernel" renames the already-installed vmlinuz and
> System.map if it's installing the same version of the kernel.

Not if you set LOCALVERSION or LOCALVERSION_AUTO in the kernel config,
then you never get two kernels with the same name.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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