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Abraham Marín Pérez wrote: |
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> Dan Cowsill escribió: |
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>> Is there any specific process to or problems one might encounter as a |
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>> result of switching from a Genkernel built kernel over to a manually |
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>> built kernel? |
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>> Thanks. |
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> As far as I can think of it would be enough getting the config file |
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> generated by genkernel, editing it through make config or similar and |
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> go ahead. Actually, if you take it as is it would work, but probably |
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> you'll have lots of stuff you don't want/need, so your task will be |
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> mainly tuning it down; be careful with those things you think you |
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> don't need, I'd cut parameters away in several step (change config, |
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> build, install, try a couple of days, then change again). |
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> HTH, |
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> Abraham |
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And always keep a working kernel as a backup just in case you get a bad |
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one. I keep a few for that reason myself like this: |
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> root@smoker / # ls -al /boot/bzImage-2.6.* |
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> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2189488 Jan 4 2007 |
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> /boot/bzImage-2.6.18.gentoo-r6-1 |
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> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2357808 Jun 8 05:47 /boot/bzImage-2.6.20-r8-1 |
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> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2389616 Jun 8 07:01 /boot/bzImage-2.6.20-r8-2 |
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> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2396880 Jun 13 01:53 /boot/bzImage-2.6.20-r8-3 |
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> root@smoker / # |
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I try to keep one from a earlier version plus at least one older of the |
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current version. Also, you may want to keep a copy of the .config file |
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too. It can be a life saver. |
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I hope that helps. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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