From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 129 invoked by uid 1002); 4 Oct 2003 14:21:54 -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 4458 invoked from network); 4 Oct 2003 14:21:54 -0000 From: Luke-Jr Organization: Gentoo Linux To: billk@iinet.net.au, Stroller , gentoo-dev List Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 14:21:41 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <3F7D4315.1020900@gentoo.org> <67D8C8CF-F66F-11D7-B976-000A95795F3E@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <1065276514.17795.30.camel@rattus.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1065276514.17795.30.camel@rattus.localdomain> GPG-Public-Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xD53E9583 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="shift_jis" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310041421.50367.luke-jr@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Speaking of new kernels being added to the tree X-Archives-Salt: fcc8d49c-cc07-4c9b-8c9a-feae622b2f12 X-Archives-Hash: ba2eaddf30f4c2a8bfb126d334be0d01 =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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=20 undocumented env variable that needed to be set before genkernel was run...= =20 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=20 automaticly. Sure, you could probably preset your configuration and gain a= =20 bit of speed, but then you could need to change something if you want to=20 change your hardware. Either way, there's a sacrifice. That's why there's a= n=20 option. :) =2D --=20 Luke-Jr Developer, Gentoo Linux http://www.gentoo.org/ =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/ftd5Zl/BHdU+lYMRAlQjAJ4rPyy2DcvNFMG2phYpLfWtHnAbRgCgmxGr PcQBYbJCE3zIwhgELy1yWCk=3D =3DSdxa =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list