Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6 upgrade howto

[Maarten]

On Monday 06 December 2004 20:25, Jean-Francois Gagnon Laporte wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 19:57:15 +0100, Maarten <gentoo@××××××××.org> wrote:
> > On Monday 06 December 2004 19:23, Jean-Francois Gagnon Laporte wrote:
> > > On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 18:47:43 +0100, Maarten <gentoo@××××××××.org> wrote:

> > indeed.  So the kernel is not updated with changing profiles ?
> > (or at least, not when going from 2004.2 to 2004.3)
>
> No you have to emerge a different sources like gentoo-dev-sources
> instead of gentoo-sources.

OK. done that, but first the 'emerge world' proved to be quite a bit longer 
than I expected as it included X and mozilla amongst others. 
I believe my poor old pentium3 500 is still pounding on it, hehe.
So things take way longer than expected (no hurry though).
Does this like happen every other week, having one or the other 'major' 
ebuilds renewed ? I mean of the size of X, or Kde, or OOo, glibc and alike ?
I'm beginning to believe my pentium3 is severely underpowered here... ;)

What is your opinion on the udev vs ... choice ?
Which is best when handling lots of hotpluggable devices (usb-storage etc) or 
is there no real difference there ?  What happens if I need to boot a 2.4 
kernel, will the missing and/or incompatible /dev structure not bite me ? 

> > I run linux kernels since 1996, so I should be "comfortable" with them.
> > ;-) I (wrongly) assumed gentoo-latest-rev used a 2.6 kernel so I was
> > unsure how to transistion to 2004.3.  So, that is cleared up now.
> > However, I will still want to run with 2.6, definitely.
>
> If that's the case i'll go less easy on you ^_^ (just joking) .

8-)  
Go right ahead.  I should be quite fluent in linux now, just the gentoo part 
is new. But I've used old slackware, redhat, suse & debian (in that order)
So feel free to skip the basics. The USE flags and some of the paths of config 
structures daunt me for now but that's basically it. And I want to learn 
gentoo the *right* way, not the easy-but-you-will-regret-that-later way.

> You should be able to pick a kernel that fits your needs. I would
> suggest using gentoo-dev-sources at first if you just want a 2.6
> kernel that works.

Yeah, I chose that one.

> like me. Here's a snapshot of my /boot since I'm probably not coherent
> enough :

No, no, you make perfect sense. I get it.  I'm already happy that the install 
script does not munge the bootloader config file (as some do IIRC)

> > One last question:  Do you need to re-run grub-install after changing
> > this file or is it 'okay to go'.  (you'll note I come from the lilo world
> > ;-)
>
> Nope grub doesn't need to be reinstalled. It scans it's configs on the
> fly so you only need to edit grub.conf and that's it. Oh and welcome
> to the light side lol.

Lol indeed; I fully agree.  Lilo caused me no end of trouble, and quite 
recently even cost me over 2 days work with 480 GB raid5 data at stake, more 
or less.  Well, long story, I'll not bore you with it but suffice to say that 
some new SATA boards' drive mapping will wreak havoc on how lilo will see 
drives (let alone BOOT from any of them). I've seen more L99 99 99 99 and L00 
00 00 00 errors than I really care to remember.  Lilo is dead for me now. 
I'll never touch it again. (Well, after the legacy systems have gone...) 

> > > Hopes this will help you out
> >
> > Yes, I think it did.  Thanks again.

Hey, I already like this list, feels right at home  :-)) 
Thanks for the welcome!

Now to get 2.6 + kismet + gpsd running and I'm truely happy.
All the rest seems to work fine already.

Maarten

> > > Jean-Francois



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