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On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 6:48 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger <lists@×××××.at> wrote: |
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> Am 01.09.2013 19:30, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: |
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>> I am following vanilla-sources in all my machines, which is what |
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>> people like Greg Kroah-Hartman actually recommends [1][2]. Since they |
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>> are now never stabilized [3], this means that I need to update them |
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>> pretty regularly to keep them safe. |
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>> This implies that I have to change the /usr/src/linux symbolic link, |
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>> configure the kernel using make oldconfig, compile it, install it, |
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>> install its modules, reemerge any package that provides kernel modules |
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>> (if any), regenerate its initramfs, regenerate the GRUB2 config file |
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>> OR adding a new entry in GRUB. |
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>> None of this steps are particularly difficult, but any mistake in one |
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>> of them can result in an unbootable system. So I wrote a little script |
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>> that takes care of each of this steps automagically: |
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>> https://github.com/canek-pelaez/kerninst |
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>> So now everytime I need to use a new kernel version, I only do: |
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>> # eselect kernel set <new-kernel> |
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>> # kerninst |
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>> Everything is done by the script. |
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> Canek, how to handle changing configs? |
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> AFAI understand I do: |
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> eselect kernel set x |
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> cd /usr/src/linux |
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> make menuconfig |
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> (SAVE .config) |
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> cp .config /etc/kerninst/kernel-config |
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> kerninst |
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> ... right? |
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> I am currently struggling with a kernel not showing /dev/kvm ... and |
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> toggling kvm_amd on/module ... etc |
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Yeah, that's the way to do it. However, kerninst is not for testing |
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different configurations of kernels. I suppose you could use it that |
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way, but I wrote exactly for the opposite case: when you finally have |
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your configuration nailed down, and just want to automatize the |
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installation of the kernel. |
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Regards. |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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