diff --git a/scripts/make_kernel.sh b/scripts/make_kernel.sh
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/make_kernel.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+NEW=$(grep "Kernel Configuration" /usr/src/linux/.config | awk '{print $3}')
+echo $NEW
+
+cd /usr/src/linux-${NEW}
+# make clean
+# make oldconfig
+make -j4 menuconfig
+make -j4 all
+make -j4 modules_install
+make install
+
+cp /usr/src/linux/.config  /etc/kernels/kernel-config-${NEW} 
+
+# rm -f /boot/*.previous
+if [ -f "/boot/initrd-${NEW}" ] ; then
+    mv "/boot/initrd-${NEW}" "/boot/initrd-${NEW}.previous"
+fi
+
+dracut -H --force --strip /boot/initrd-${NEW} ${NEW}
+
+grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
+
+echo "After successful boot of new kernel run:"
+echo "   root # module-rebuild rebuild"
+# eselect opengl set ati
diff --git a/scripts/update_box.sh b/scripts/update_box.sh
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/update_box.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+# set -x
+
+emerge --update --deep --newuse --pretend world
+
+echo "Press Ctrl-C to abort..."
+read
+
+# Trigger mount
+# ls /mnt/portage/distfiles /mnt/portage/portage > /dev/null
+
+emerge --update --deep --newuse --keep-going world
+
+# echo "Fixing pax flags..."
+# ${SCRIPT_DIR}/fix_grsec.sh
+
+echo "Going to remove unneeded packages ..."
+emerge --depclean
+
+echo "Fixing dependencies..."
+revdep-rebuild -i
diff --git a/scripts/update_portage.sh b/scripts/update_portage.sh
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index 0000000..f35cbab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/update_portage.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+# set -x
+
+PORTAGE=/mnt/portage/portage
+
+emerge -q --sync 
+layman -q -S
+
+# Delete any package mask
+[ -f ${PORTAGE}/profiles/hardened/linux/amd64/package.mask ] && rm -f ${PORTAGE}/profiles/hardened/linux/amd64/package.mask
+# Reenable nvidia
+perl -i -p -e 's/^(nvidia|video_cards_nvidia|vdpau|cuda|opencl)/# $1/;' ${PORTAGE}/profiles/hardened/linux/use.mask ${PORTAGE}/profiles/hardened/linux/amd64/use.mask
+
+# echo "Cleaning up archives.."
+eclean -q packages
+eclean -q distfiles