Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Kernel Installation Doc

[Nicholas Hockey <tilt@bluecherry.net>]

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So Copy it over, nothing relly hard about that, tho i am a firm bealiver
that you should know your machine enough to be able to compile a kernel
for it. tho having it do this automaticly would relly take away the
apeal of gentoo for me, i like to be in control, and using some yuppies
pre-fab kernel, with things he thinks i should use, that would just take
up precious HD space, is not the gentoo way.

On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 10:04, Yannick Koehler wrote:

> I think it would be nice that I could take the kernel from the LiveCD and 
> installed it as is (including moduels) over my new installation PC instead of 
> building a new one.  For sure I would like to do that past the first reboot 
> but I often got problems where I forgot some required kernel option rebooting 
> into a "Missing console" kernel critical stop or into a "Missing DevFS" 
> state.
> 
> Then I have to reboot from the CD, remount everything as it was, chroot and 
> recompile ...  It would be really great that the installation start by having 
> you install the LiveCD kernel with the module get this to be the default 
> kernel for your installation then once rebooted to that new kernel from the 
> hard disk you could then start installing/playing with a new version of the 
> kernel.
> 
> At least at that point if the new kernel failed, a simple reboot with the 
> selection through grub/lilo to pick the previous working kernel would be 
> enough to get you back inside a working state to debug your kernel.
> 
> That installation could also be simplified by creating an ebuild such as 
> livecd-kernel and having the admin type emerge livecd-kernel to do that step 
> for him.
> 
> This would also make it easier for an installation software to get that step 
> automatically done.

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