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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Switching from Genkernel to manual build
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 21:10:57
Message-Id: 20070801220522.49329ba9@zaphod.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Switching from Genkernel to manual build by Kent Fredric
1 On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 08:28:46 +1200, Kent Fredric wrote:
2
3 > Yeah, but 1: no INITRD is built,
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5 Which you rarely need with a hand built kernel, but if you do it can be
6 compiled with the kernel.
7
8 > 2: using genkernel build script will automatically add new entries in
9 > grub.conf ie:
10
11 make install removes the need for adding new entries to an ever-growing
12 menu.lst, all you need are two entries for current kernel and previous
13 kernel (vmlinu[zx] and vmlinu[zx].old).
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16 --
17 Neil Bothwick
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19 Jimmy Hoffa is buried here ------> X

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Re: [gentoo-user] Switching from Genkernel to manual build Daniel da Veiga <danieldaveiga@×××××.com>