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Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Michael Hampicke wrote: |
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> <SNIP> |
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>>> I don't understand why people always say that they hate genkernel |
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>>> because they like to build the kernel on their own. You still can do |
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>>> this with genkernel. I've been doing it for years. |
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> <SNIP> |
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>> I tried genkernel and it was a miserable failure for me. So, for me, I |
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>> have no desire to use it. I have also read where others have the same |
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>> experience so it is not just me. It may work fine for some but for |
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>> others it does not. |
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>> I plan to keep making mine the manual way. You can keep using genkernel |
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>> if you want. |
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>> BTW, mine is like this: |
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>> copy old config |
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>> make oldconfig |
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>> make all && make modules_install |
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>> copy kernel to /boot |
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>> That to me seems a LOT easier and it also works very well for me. |
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>> Dale |
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>> :-) :-) |
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> Until you add in the work of doing the initrd for each new kernel. I |
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> think that's Michael's point. |
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> I agree with you Dale. I do it the same way as you, except if I build |
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> an initrd I've done it completely by hand, building the whole |
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> directory structure, etc, then building it into the binary. That's a |
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> lot of work. Today we have two tools I know of, genkernel & dracut, |
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> that are represented as doing this work for us. I'm interested in what |
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> genkernel did wrong for you, as well as how to use both tools |
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> successfully. |
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> - Mark |
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Thing is, I can't get dracut to boot a system as I use it. See my other |
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post. Right now, my plan is to mask udev at what it is and either |
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switch to another distro, hope someone figures out why dracut isn't |
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working or just move everything to / and hope it doesn't ever screw up |
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right after I go to bed and full up / with errors in the messages file. |
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I had this happen once. Having /var on it's own partition was the only |
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thing that saved my butt. |
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The thing about switching to a distro that uses a init thingy, I don't |
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have to mess with it. Someone else makes the stupid thing. |
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Just weighing out my options. There are lots of things to weigh to. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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-- |
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I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or |
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how you interpreted my words! |
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Miss the compile output? Hint: |
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EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n" |