Re: [gentoo-dev] Speaking of new kernels being added to the tree

[Luke-Jr <luke-jr@gentoo.org>]

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On Saturday 04 October 2003 02:08 pm, William Kenworthy wrote:
> And failed on 2 goes for me, two different installs for me so far.
> First one I cant remember, but the one yesterday hung soon after failing
> to reallocate root filesystem (or similar)
I believe I had a problem similar to this a while ago. Turned out there was an 
undocumented env variable that needed to be set before genkernel was run... 
Not sure if the same issue still exists tho.
>
> Also not really sold on the idea of auto detecting everything on bootup
> for a working system.  Seems slow to boot (as far as it went) and has a
> lot of cruft attached (unused modules, kernel options etc).  If you go
> the menuconfig route, you may as well do it all by hand, and remove the
> possiblity of initrd problems.
But many users want to be able to simply change hardware and have it work 
automaticly. Sure, you could probably preset your configuration and gain a 
bit of speed, but then you could need to change something if you want to 
change your hardware. Either way, there's a sacrifice. That's why there's an 
option. :)
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Luke-Jr
Developer, Gentoo Linux
http://www.gentoo.org/
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