From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20200 invoked by uid 1002); 10 Jan 2003 15:50:33 -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 20915 invoked from network); 10 Jan 2003 15:50:32 -0000 Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 08:47:29 -0700 From: Alain To: Yannick Koehler Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20030110154729.GB1535@rexorient.com> References: <200301101004.19439.yannick.koehler@colubris.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200301101004.19439.yannick.koehler@colubris.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Organisation: RexOrient.com Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Kernel Installation Doc X-Archives-Salt: 31d33058-ac41-4953-ae04-06834f5c1892 X-Archives-Hash: 2e3cf177a5055e2a590439b359297dd7 I tend to agree with this, as it would also eliminate a problem I ran into (which I'm assuming will get fixed for the final 1.4 release): The 1.4 RC2 CD boots with a 2.4.20 kernel, which happens to recognize and support the nVidia ethernet port on my Asus A7N8X motherboard (later version of the 2.4.20 kernel also recognize the 3COM ethernet port, but alas.. I need only one port to get gentoo going). After the gentoo install was completed and I rebooted, I ended up with a 2.4.19 kernel, which doesn't support either of the ethernet ports without being patched. Once a new kernel is compiled, the install kernel could be added as a "fail-safe" backup kernel to the boot menu. Alain On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 10:04:19AM -0500, 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. > >-- > >Yannick Koehler > >-- >gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list