[gentoo-dev] Gentoo Kernel Installation Doc

[Yannick Koehler <yannick.koehler@colubris.com>]

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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Yannick Koehler

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