Currently the guide says.. # make && make modules_install # mount /boot # cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/bzImage-2.6.9-gentoo-r2 When to me it makes more since to have it something more informative like ... _______________________________________________________________________________ # mount /boot # make && make modules_install install *Now your kernel is at /boot/vmlinuz.<your-kernel-version> with symlinking *done for you to vmlinuz and If one existed your old kernel is linked to as vmlinuz.old, Please confirm this with ls -al /boot _________________________________________________________________________________ We help users on freenode do this every day, It seems to make more since. Is there some reason that I do not know about to have them copying it there? Reproducible: Always
additionally we get questions like. "when i do mount /boot it says cant find /boot in /etc/fstab" so maybe it even makes more since to say it like.. _______________________________________________________________________________ **If your /boot partition is on a separate you need to mount it first. # mount /boot **Then build and install your kernel. # make && make modules_install install **Now your kernel is at /boot/vmlinuz.<your-kernel-version> with symlinking **done for you to vmlinuz and If one existed your old kernel is linked to as **vmlinuz.old, Please confirm this with ls -al /boot _________________________________________________________________________________
Works for me too , but that wasn't the point. The point was to try to make the documentation work for more people, or at least be more simplified for those users still learning.
i think this has come up before (switching to `make install`), so try searching bugzilla to see if there's any visible history ... i havent copied a kernel by hand in a long time because `make install` is so much easier
reopening for proper resolution
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 183346 ***
