On Thursday 19 June 2008 06:07:27 dhk wrote: > Matthew R. Lee wrote: > > On Wednesday 18 June 2008 17:54:28 Florian Philipp wrote: > >> On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:34:35 -0400 > >> > >> "Matthew R. Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> I've just compiled a new kernel. I then mounted the boot partition, > >>> copied the new bzimage across, along with .config and system.map. I > >>> then edited the grub.conf But when I reboot it offers me the same > >>> options as in the old grub.conf not the new one. I must have missed a > >>> step somewhere, but I can't think where. Can anyone point me in the > >>> right direction Thanks > >>> Matt > >> > >> Did you check whether you've really overwritten the old grub.conf? > >> Is the file in the right directory (/boot/grub/)? Is there a symlink > >> menu.lst on grub.conf? > >> Do you really boot from that partition? > > > > the file /boot/grub/grub.conf has the new config. > > menu.lst is a symlink to grub.conf > > /boot is the mount point for /dev/sda1 the boot partition > > the only thing that I changed is to replace the oldest kernel with the > > newest. The order shouldn't make any difference, I want the default to be > > my current working kernel. I want to test the new kernel before I make it > > the default. Point is that this setup was working previously and has done > > so since I started using gentoo. I have checked to make sure that > > /dev/sda1 was really mounted at /boot when I copied everything across, > > and it was. So I don't know what has gone wrong. > > > > Matt > > Did you run grub-install?
No, and before I do, given the warnings in the manual, I want to make sure I don't screw up I have a standard partition layout with three partitions sda1 (boot) sda2 (swap) sda3 (the rest). sda1 is the bootable partition So I issue the command grub-instal /dev/sda Correct?? Thanks Matt -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee Instituto Biologia Marina 'Jurgen Winter' Universidad Austral de Chile Campus Isla Teja Valdivia [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
