Beldon Dominello on Tue, 2 Apr 2002 07:05:40 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] Kernel recompiles with GRUB


On Monday 01 April 2002 22:17, you wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-04-01 at 21:46, Beldon Dominello wrote:
> > On Monday 01 April 2002 21:32, you wrote:
> > > I'm going to recompile my kernel. Previously, I always made a new
> > > image; added a stanza to LILO; and re-ran LILO. With GRUB, I just make
> > > the new image, as before; add a section to GRUB's menu.lst; and do a
> > > update-grub. And that should be it, right? With GRUB, the bootloader
> > > doesn't have to be re-installed after each kernel compile, the way LILO
> > > does; you just run update-grub.
> >
> > You don't run 'update-grub' because the change is picked up in the file.
>
> Oh? But I wanna keep the old (original) kernel, so my kernel image will
> have it's own name (vmlinuz-2.4.16-MJL). I thought that menu.lst wasn't
> updated properly (with new entries), until you ran update-grub. Or am I
> mis-understanding this GRUB stuff again?

Hmmm.  Maybe I'm misunderstanding it.  I haven't used it but once (on my 
laptop) and I don't think I've ever compiled on it (source won't fit).  
Sorry.  I thought I knew what I was talking about. <Puts paper bag over head>

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