Re: is 2.4.15 really available at www.kernel.org?

[Christoph Hellwig]

In article <[e-mail]> you wrote:
> kbuild 2.5 has standard support for running user specific install
> scripts after installing the bootable kernel and modules.  That is, the
> "update my bootloader" phase can be automated and will propagate from
> one .config to the next when you make oldconfig.

Never 2.4 kernels already try to excecute ~/bin/installkernel in the
'make install' pass on i386.

My personal tip for people keeping lots of kernels around is grub, though.
No need for a menu entry, one can just boot all kernel on the accessible
filesystems.

Together with the above "~/bin/installkernel" option I put my kernels always
into /lib/modules/<version>/vmlinux so I can find them easily (IMHO this
should be default in 2.5), so even lilo-using people could write simple
scripts to add all kernels present in /lib/modules/ to their config.
This does of course make the path '/lib/modules/' grossly misnamed, maybe
we could change it into /kernel in 2.5 :)

	Christoph

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Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.