Looking at the kernel upgrade pages at
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kernel-upgrade.xml
Its a bit confusing about the symlink creation. I've wondered about
it a few times.
At the top, you're told how to get the sources and then a discussion
of the symlink follows.
It appears you are
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
And in fact does it really matter if its pointing at the newly
installed or actual running kernel, when kernel compiling operations
take place?
When I upgrade a kernel, I first change the symlink using eselect to
point to
Denis wrote:
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
And in fact does it really matter if its pointing at the newly
installed or actual running kernel, when kernel compiling operations
take place?
When I upgrade a kernel, I first change the symlink
On Saturday 31 October 2009 23:26:33 Dale wrote:
Denis wrote:
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
And in fact does it really matter if its pointing at the newly
installed or actual running kernel, when kernel compiling operations
take place?
When I
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Saturday 31 October 2009 23:26:33 Dale wrote:
Denis wrote:
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
And in fact does it really matter if its pointing at the newly
installed or actual running kernel, when kernel
On Sunday 01 November 2009 00:52:42 Dale wrote:
emerge, build, install new kernel
carry on with work
boot into new kernel at some later point
observe xdm doing nothing on-screen
curse and swear mightily
Ctrl-Alt-F1
login as root
check symlink
module-rebuild rebuild
modprobe -r
On Sun, 1 Nov 2009 00:20:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
I'm a forgetful old git. In my world it usually goes like this:
emerge, build, install new kernel
carry on with work
boot into new kernel at some later point
observe xdm doing nothing on-screen
curse and swear mightily
Ctrl-Alt-F1
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Saturday 31 October 2009 23:26:33 Dale wrote:
Denis wrote:
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
And in fact does it really matter if its pointing at the newly
installed or
On Sunday 01 November 2009 01:29:27 Mark Knecht wrote:
So I think this thread addresses a question I've had about the kernel
installation process over the years. I only copy bzImage to /boot with
a rename to whatever this kernel is. I don't do anything with the
other files - System.map and
On 10/31/2009 7:29 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
So I think this thread addresses a question I've had about the kernel
installation process over the years. I only copy bzImage to /boot with
a rename to whatever this kernel is. I don't do anything with the
other files - System.map and something else -
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sunday 01 November 2009 01:29:27 Mark Knecht wrote:
So I think this thread addresses a question I've had about the kernel
installation process over the years. I only copy bzImage to /boot with
a rename to whatever
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