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On Sunday 30 April 2006 16:30, Maurice E Johnson wrote: |
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> I do hope you have read the appropriate documentation. |
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> In the Gentoo world, we have a thing called genkernel. Genkernel |
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> receives a lot of bad publicity sometimes but it realy is a nice tool |
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> if you graduate from the simple command line. |
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> Under genkernel you have several options for building either |
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> kernel |
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> modules |
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> initramfs |
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> In fact, the default under 2.6.x kernels is to build an initramfs for |
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> you. |
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> it will also install the entire mess for you. |
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which is how i'm booting off a raid 1 /boot partition, which everything else |
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(including / and swap) on an lvm on a raid5. genkernel will allow you to |
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also issue --menuconfig which will allow you into the kernel configuration |
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process. |
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