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Dale wrote: |
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> Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>> On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 15:44:51 +0000, Wols Lists wrote: |
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>>>> Compiling the kernel and modules? Replace 1 with |
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>>>> make all modules_install install |
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>>>> There's also the matter of the initramfs, one of the main reasons |
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>>>> people use genkernel, although I prefer dracut for this. |
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>>> until you trip over genkernel's "features" ... like AUTOMOUNT_BOOT, |
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>>> which doesn't work, by design. Or NO_INSTALL, which does rather more |
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>>> than just not installing ... |
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>>> I'm investigating source_mage, and ought to investigate dracut. |
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>> Once you have a working kernel, there's very little to do on updates. A |
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>> script that runs |
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>> cd /usr/src/linux |
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>> zcate /proc/config.gz >.config |
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>> make oldconfig |
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>> make all modules_install install |
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>> dracut --kver=$(cat include/config/kernel.release) --xz |
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>> update the bootloader |
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>> mostly does it all, with a few frills thrown in to cover things like |
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>> rebuilding modules. |
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> Can you explain this part a bit? How it knows what version for example |
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> to build against? Does it follow the link in /usr/src/linux, eselect |
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> info or something else? |
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>> dracut --kver=$(cat include/config/kernel.release) --xz |
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> The one thing that stumps me is figuring out how to tell dracut what |
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> version I want built. I keep 2, 3 and sometimes 4 kernels of different |
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> versions lurking about in /boot. |
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> Thanks. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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I got it figured out. That's a little like cheating. LOL |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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