On Sunday 08 April 2007, Jonathan Berry wrote: >On 4/8/07, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> As you know, I test kernels for a hobby, and one of the biggest PITA's >> ever is continually re-installing the nvidia driver since my kernel >> maker/installer script copies everything already installed from that >> version in /boot and /lib/modules to a .old version in case things go >> aglay. Its an easy revert that way if they do. But that also means I >> have to re-install the thing everytime I build a new kernel. Or for >> some reason reboot to a known good kernel that's already had it >> installed once, but nvidia in their paranoia somehow manages to kill >> it if a different kernel has been booted since that one was. > >Gene, >The nvidia installer has an option to it that will allow you just to >compile the kernel module, rather than install the whole driver all >over again (which will blow away all other kernel modules). You can >also specify a kernel version for which to build if you wish to >install it for a kernel other than the currently running version. -k >and -K <version>, I believe, are the options. Run the nvidia*.sh >script with --help for more details (or there may be another with more >detailed help, can't remember, I think --help should tell you). As >long as you do not upgrade versions of the driver, you can just >install the kernel module this way and run multiple kernels. > >Jonathan The real problem is that my own installer does an mv of /lib/modules/$VER to /lib/modules/$VER.old in order to leave a ready path to revert things. It does the same thing with vmlinuz, initrd, and the various config.gz's I also store there. That of course is all my fault because I bypass the regular install because of its arbitrary editing of /boot/grub/grub.conf, something I'm quite capable of doing & doing it a lot cleaner. I really should add a couple of lines to my 'makeit' script that reaches into that .old tree and copies it to the new tree being installed. So between those two actions I should be good to go until nvidia ships a new driver. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Book: "River, you don't... fix the Bible." River: "It's broken. It doesn't make sense." --Episode #7, "Jaynestown"
