From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30906 invoked by uid 1002); 10 Jan 2003 15:07:33 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 18957 invoked from network); 10 Jan 2003 15:07:33 -0000 From: Yannick Koehler Organization: Colubris Networks Inc. Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 10:04:19 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200301101004.19439.yannick.koehler@colubris.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 10 Jan 2003 15:04:31.0147 (UTC) FILETIME=[9402D7B0:01C2B8B9] Subject: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Kernel Installation Doc X-Archives-Salt: 2c525437-0923-4a0b-ba1f-f2b1b5bf5bdc X-Archives-Hash: 9c6feb121c0a06edcf2f8c6b3d51feb2 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. -- Yannick Koehler -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list