Genkernel

Gentoo utility to manage Linux kernel installations.

usage

• example command:

genkernel --splash --splash-res=1280x1024 --install all

• conf file:

/etc/genkernel.conf

• Updating kernel reusing old config with genkernel

cd /etc/kernels
cp kernel-config-x86-2.6.9-gentoo-r1 kernel-config-x86-2.6.9-gentoo-r2
genkernel all

my config

<syntaxhighlight lang="bash" > OLDCONFIG="yes" MENUCONFIG="yes" CLEAN="yes" MRPROPER="yes" ARCH_OVERRIDE="x86_64" KERNEL_ARCH=x86 MOUNTBOOT="yes" SAVE_CONFIG="yes" USECOLOR="yes" MAKEOPTS="-j2" LVM="no" EVMS="no" DMRAID="yes" BUSYBOX="no" MDADM="yes" DISKLABEL="yes" BOOTLOADER="grub" BOOTDIR="/boot" GK_SHARE="/usr/share/genkernel" CACHE_DIR="/var/cache/genkernel" DISTDIR="${CACHE_DIR}/src" LOGFILE="/var/log/genkernel.log" LOGLEVEL=2 DEFAULT_KERNEL_SOURCE="/usr/src/linux" </syntaxhighlight>