E-mail sent to www@gentoo.org by Som (som(a)somware-hr): """URL: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=7 Code Listing 12: Installing the kernel # cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/kernel-2.4.25-gentoo # cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.4.25-gentoo It is not clear what to do if one have kernel 2.6 - there is no bzImage file in arch/i386/... Instead, I had to restart with "7.d. Alternative: Using genkernel" """
I've added a comment about using vmlinuz instead of arch/i386/boot/bzImage for 2.6 kernels.
It's even more confusing now. What's this about? Of course kernel-2.6 has bzImage and that's what I have always used. # ls -l /usr/src/linux-2.6.7/arch/i386/boot/bz* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1731550 Jul 2 22:44 /usr/src/linux-2.6.7/arch/i386/boot/bzImage What should I do with this vmlinuz? There is *NO* vmlinuz at all btw Only a vmlinuz.bin that looks a bit but not quite like bzImage: # file /usr/src/linux-2.6.7/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /usr/src/linux-2.6.7/arch/i386/boot/bzImage: x86 boot sector # file /usr/src/linux-2.6.7/arch/i386/boot/vmlinux.bin /usr/src/linux-2.6.7/arch/i386/boot/vmlinux.bin: data
How awkward. I'm confused also but facts are facts. There is indeed a bzImage available. I thought they (kernel devs) had changed this behaviour with 2.6 to be in line with many other architectures? Anyway, I'm reverting my changes and invalidating. Sorry about this. I'm probably mixing with UML or something like that.
