linux-kernel - Re: Question missing menul.lst file

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Message-ID: <20100728030546.GA5161@cr0.nay.redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:05:46 +0800
From:	Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:	Victor Rodriguez <vm.rod25@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question missing menul.lst file

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 06:54:24PM -0500, Victor Rodriguez wrote:
>I have already clone the mainline and follw the steps sugested in
>kernelnewbies in order compile the kenel I was working in ubuntu 10.04
> i followed all the instruction in this way
>
>$make menuconfig
>$make
>#make modules_install
>#make install
>
>but then they put really explicit
>
>If you're using Ubuntu, you will need to edit menu.lst instead of grub.conf
>
>I look for in ubuntu documentation for this file and ubuntu establish
>in the LucidLynx/ReleaseNotes that the file most be opened by this way
>
>Open /boot/grub/menu.lst with a text editor (e.g., sudo gedit
>/boot/grub/menu.lst).
>
>And then save the file, and run sudo update-grub from the commandline.
>
>I have run in file system
>
>$sudo find -name menu.lst and nothing appear
>
>any way i skip the part of open the menu.lst file and just did the
>sudo update-grub and for me it works the image of the new kernel is
>available after reboot the machine i cehck the kernel version with
>
>$ uname -a and this appear
>
>Linux victor-desktop 2.6.35-rc6+ #1 SMP Tue Jul 27 16:40:26 CDT 2010
>i686 GNU/Linux
>
>I don't know if this is a bug in the new kernel release but at least
>in the available documentation it is
>

No, it is the distribution's work to make the kernel installed
correctly in grub.conf or menu.lst. Distribution has to provide
a correct INSTALLKERNEL.

Thanks.
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