From 21435953e16cda318a82334ddbadb3b5c36d9ea7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: V3n3RiX Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 15:51:32 +0000 Subject: gentoo resync : 15.01.2020 --- ...2019-12-30-genkernel-4-default-filenames.en.txt | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+) create mode 100644 metadata/news/2019-12-30-genkernel-4-default-filenames/2019-12-30-genkernel-4-default-filenames.en.txt (limited to 'metadata/news/2019-12-30-genkernel-4-default-filenames/2019-12-30-genkernel-4-default-filenames.en.txt') diff --git a/metadata/news/2019-12-30-genkernel-4-default-filenames/2019-12-30-genkernel-4-default-filenames.en.txt b/metadata/news/2019-12-30-genkernel-4-default-filenames/2019-12-30-genkernel-4-default-filenames.en.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..ba5962e58602 --- /dev/null +++ b/metadata/news/2019-12-30-genkernel-4-default-filenames/2019-12-30-genkernel-4-default-filenames.en.txt @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +Title: Genkernel 4 changed default filenames +Author: Thomas Deutschmann +Posted: 2019-12-30 +Revision: 1 +News-Item-Format: 2.0 +Display-If-Installed: >=sys-kernel/genkernel-4 + +To be consistent with kernel's own naming which allows for easier +matching of kernel/initramfs with kernel files (/lib/modules), +genkernel 4 changed default kernel and initramfs filename: + + kernel-genkernel-%%ARCH%%-%%KV%% -> vmlinuz-%%KV%% + System.map-genkernel-%%ARCH%%-%%KV%% -> System.map-%%KV%% + initramfs-genkernel-%%ARCH%%-%%KV%% -> initramfs-%%KV%%.img + +Note that in genkernel 4, filenames are fully customizable and that +$ARCH value is now part of $KV value by default. + +All bootloaders and utilities like sys-apps/kexec-tools available in +Gentoo repository support the new naming schema. + +However, due to lexical ordering, the default boot entry in your boot +manager could still point to last kernel built with genkernel before +that name change, resulting in booting old kernel when not paying +attention on boot. -- cgit v1.2.3