On 18/03/2012 11:52, Dale wrote:
Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Saturday 17 March 2012 12:54:53 Eliezer Croitoru wrote:
genkernel is pretty simple to use if you ask me.
just
emerege genkernel
and then use
genkerenl --menuconfig all
it will do everything for you the same as in a regular kernel
compiling.
you have instructions on how to use genkernel on the handbook.
What's more, you don't have to keep going through menuconfig if you
already have a running self-compiled kernel. Just copy the .config file to
somewhere safe (I use, e.g. /boot/config-3.2) and call genkernel with the
option to specify the config file it's to use. Sorry but I can't tell you
exactly what the parameter is as I don't have genkernel on this box.
Someone will be along in a moment though.
I used genkernel when I was first installing Gentoo. I let that thing
build half a dozen kernels, chroot in between too. You know what, not
one of them worked. That was a long time ago but let me check something
here.< spit spit spit> I had to get the bad taste out of my mouth. lol
I might also add, I started using a init thingy a few weeks ago, dracut
tool. For some crazy reason, when I boot with the init thingy, my
system doesn't work right. When I boot without the init thingy, it
works fine. Still trying to figure out that one. It's in another thread.
I don't see myself using genkernel any time soon. Right now, I'm having
flashbacks to hal with regard to dracut and the whole init thingy /usr
mess.
i have used genkernel for a long time and all of my genkernel
compilation works really good.
i have (counting, 1 very very big production server, 2 small production
server, 3 home server, 4 +5 +6 + 7 +8 of vms runing genkernel with
several services such as mail mail filtering web server and monitoring)
so what can i say? all these machines will say other then you.
Regards,
Eliezer
Dale
:-) :-)
