Re: [gentoo-user] update-grub? I have no such thing.
On Montag, 15. Oktober 2007, Mark Shields wrote: On 10/14/07, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sonntag, 14. Oktober 2007, Mark Shields wrote: And no, you don't need it. Writing and maintaining your own menu.lst ( grub.conf) works just fine. well, I have a 'vmlinuz' entry and a 'vmlinuz.old' entry. Since make install creates the proper symlinks there is no grub.conf/menu.lst editing needed. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Of course, those are symlinks. Specifying the actual kernel rather than a symlink ensures you're always booting from the correct kernel. I have one entry in grub.conf pointing to /vmlinuz , the others point to specific kernels. you can always type the name of the 'correct' kernel in the boot-commandline. So even if vmlinuz is not the 'correct' one you don't need other kernels in grub.conf. Boot, set the symlink, problem solved. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] update-grub? I have no such thing.
On Sonntag, 14. Oktober 2007, Mark Shields wrote: And no, you don't need it. Writing and maintaining your own menu.lst ( grub.conf) works just fine. well, I have a 'vmlinuz' entry and a 'vmlinuz.old' entry. Since make install creates the proper symlinks there is no grub.conf/menu.lst editing needed. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] update-grub? I have no such thing.
On 10/14/07, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sonntag, 14. Oktober 2007, Mark Shields wrote: And no, you don't need it. Writing and maintaining your own menu.lst ( grub.conf) works just fine. well, I have a 'vmlinuz' entry and a 'vmlinuz.old' entry. Since make install creates the proper symlinks there is no grub.conf/menu.lst editing needed. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Of course, those are symlinks. Specifying the actual kernel rather than a symlink ensures you're always booting from the correct kernel. I have one entry in grub.conf pointing to /vmlinuz , the others point to specific kernels. -- - Mark Shields
[gentoo-user] update-grub? I have no such thing.
I see that building a kernel ends with checking for update-grub, which I don't have. Should I? Where does it come from? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
Re: [gentoo-user] update-grub? I have no such thing.
On Sonntag, 14. Oktober 2007, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I see that building a kernel ends with checking for update-grub, which I don't have. Should I? Where does it come from? I don't know. I see that message too. Every single time. And so far I have had no problems caused by the lack of it. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] update-grub? I have no such thing.
On 10/13/07, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sonntag, 14. Oktober 2007, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I see that building a kernel ends with checking for update-grub, which I don't have. Should I? Where does it come from? I don't know. I see that message too. Every single time. And so far I have had no problems caused by the lack of it. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list From: http://www.fifi.org/cgi-bin/man2html/usr/share/man/man8/update-grub.8.gz NAME update-grub - program to generate GRUB's menu.lst file SYNOPSIS * update-grub* DESCRIPTION *update-grub* is a program used to generate the * menu.lst* file used by the grub bootloader. It works by looking in */boot*for all files which start with *vmlinuz-*. They will be treated as kernels, and grub menu entries will be created for each. It will also create the initial *menu.lst* if none exists, after prompting the user. It will also add initrd lines for ramdisk images found with the same version as kernels found. e.g. /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.5 and /boot/initrd-2.4.5 will cause a line of initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.5 or simliar to be added for the kernel entry in the menu.lst. - And no, you don't need it. Writing and maintaining your own menu.lst ( grub.conf) works just fine. -- - Mark Shields
