From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.18K7 i686) When you compile your own kernel, installkernel will override the INSTALL_PATH varable if you run "make install". (Installkernel is installed as part of the kernel RPM.) Having the new kernel end up in /boot is fine if you are compiling a new kernel for the current machine, but it is a problem if you are compiling it for another machine, especialy if you are building the kernel as root. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install a stock kernel. 2.Set INSTALL_PATH to anything except /boot. 3.Run "make install" in the root directory of the kernel source. Actual Results: The new kernel ends up in /boot. Expected Results: The new kernel ends up in directory pointed to by INSTALL_PATH. In /sbin/installkernel, change: INSTALL_PATH=/boot to if [ -z $INSTALL_PATH ] ; then INSTALL_PATH=/boot fi
bug still present in 7.2 and in 7.3 also, /sbin/installkernel is now owned by mkinitrd and not kernel
fixed for mkinitrd 3.3.12 -- we don't reconfigure the bootloader if INSTALL_PATH != "/boot" though...