On Sonntag 01 Februar 2009, Dale wrote:
> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > 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.
>
> OK.  At least I ain't going crazy.  Whew, that was close.
>
> >> I'm just wanting to make sure I am not going to blow up something when I
> >> boot that thing.
> >
> > why do you care anyway? Just install debianutils and use make install.
>
> I like to copy mine manually.  I dunno, I just do.  I'm weird that way.
> I also have a unique way of naming my kernels so I can keep up with
> which is which.

well, you can always put the name in the config - and let make install do the 
copy. That way you get a nice vmlinuz symlink to the latest kernel and 
vmlinuz.old to the older one - and you never have to touch grub.conf again.


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