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Alex Schuster wrote: |
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> Dale writes: |
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>> I don't use genkernel anymore. I just roll my own. That way, I know |
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>> what is in there and what is not. Then if something doesn't work, I |
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>> know if it is the kernel or something else. With genkernel, you won't |
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>> have a clue what it is since you don't know much if anything about the |
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>> kernel and how it is configured. |
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> That's not necessarily true. When I create a new kernel, I copy |
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> /usr/src/linux/.config into the new kernel directory, make oldconfig and |
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> menuconfig just as I like my kernel to be, and recreate the linux symlink |
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> to the new kernel directory. Then I do a genkernel --install --lvm --luks |
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> all&& emerge -a @module-rebuild, and am done. |
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> I never noticed genkernel changing anything in my configuration, .config, |
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> /proc/config.gz and the stuff in /etc/kernels/ are identical. Until not |
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> long ago, I did not even know that genkernel was intended to create a |
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> working kernel from scratch. |
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> Wonko |
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I always do mine this way. I copy the .config from the old kernel to |
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the new kernel, run make oldconfig then afterwards make all && make |
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modules_install and then copy the kernel to /boot with my own numbering |
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system. That way I know which version and series the kernel is. After |
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that, edit grub with the new kernel and I'm done. I have only had that |
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fail once in the past six years or so and the kernel made some serious |
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changes and I had to start from scratch that one time. They moved |
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things around and oldconfig couldn't reorganize things on the new kernel. |
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Point being, genkernal causes issues for people and they don't know how |
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to fix it because they expect genkernel to do everything. Problem with |
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that is that usually when someone has a kernel problem, they use |
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genkernel. If they do their own, it just works. Now someone new to |
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building a kernel may need some help but apparently genkernel needs some |
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help anyway. May as well learn how to roll your own. This is Gentoo |
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after all. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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