142317 – Kernel Upgrade Guide: use make install instead of cp arch/i386...

Bug 142317 - Kernel Upgrade Guide: use make install instead of cp arch/i386...

Summary: Kernel Upgrade Guide: use make install instead of cp arch/i386...

Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME

Alias:	None

Product:	[OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Other documents (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Docs Team

URL:	http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kernel-u...
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Duplicates (1):	406963 (view as bug list)
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Reported:	2006-07-31 12:49 UTC by Paweł Hajdan, Jr. (RETIRED)
Modified:	2012-03-06 09:15 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Paweł Hajdan, Jr. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-07-31 12:49:13 UTC

Code Listing 5.4: Compiling and installing the new kernel
# make && make modules_install
# mount /boot
# cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/bzImage-2.6.9-gentoo-r2 <---- this line

IMO replacing marked line above with "make install" would result in much cleaner and simpler upgrade procedure. It creates convenient symlinks in /boot, copies config and System.map files and automatically labels them with kernel version string.

Comment 1 Łukasz Damentko (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-08-04 02:22:42 UTC

There's no need to copy the System.map (kernel folks say so) or .config (can be taken from /proc). And doing something "by hand" is always much cleaner and simplier than using a script for that. Thanks for reporting anyway.

Comment 2 nm (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-03-06 09:15:41 UTC

*** Bug 406963 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***