booting kernel.old uses /boot/modules, not modules.old
YONETANI Tomokazu
qhwt+dfly at les.ath.cx
Tue Aug 31 15:32:39 PDT 2010
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 09:23:04AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> Hmm. I've been wanting to go to a /boot/<directory>/{kernel + modules}
> setup for a while, I'm glad you brought this up. I will mess around a
> bit today and see if I can implement the model I want. It will be a
> nice break from the kernel work.
We have DESTLABEL variable (see build(7)); with which, If specified, things
go to
${DESTDIR}/boot/kernel.${DESTLABEL} and
${DESTDIR}/boot/modules.${DESTLABEL},
respectively. I believe that the idea was to be able to specify this
${DESTLABEL} in the boot loader, for example,
OK boot ${DESTLABEL} # or maybe .${DESTLABEL}
and $kernel and $module_path are set up to point to those locations.
I'm not sure how to do this in Forth, though.
/boot/<directory> is fine as well, but it could be useful if we have
some make variables for installkernel target to point to where old
kernel/modules should go or where new kernel/modules should be installed.
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