Where is the linux kernel actually stored? Messed up my filesystem permissions in /usr
by George528 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5JF3P)
After installing gentoo i wanted to reconfigure the kernel, but wanted to do it as user (as many recommends) but i got permission denied. so i did chown -R to /usr, basically destroying the entire filesystem permissions. The only valuable thing i got in /usr is the kernel. can i just copy the /usr/src/linux into a safe place, the deleting /usr and extracting it again from stage 3 tarball? it might work if the kernel image is located in /boot. Is that right? are linux sources isolated in only one place, as /use/src/linux, or is it installed in multiple places and it depends from one another? any answers will be appreciated. Thanks.
