Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot boot 2.6.21-gentoo-r4

[Albert Hopkins <marduk@gentoo.org>]

On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 15:19 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 July 2007, Mick wrote:
> > On Tuesday 17 July 2007 13:20, Billy McCann wrote:
> > > Hi Mick.   From what I understand, using oldconfig for major
> > > version changes (.20 -> .21) is a bad idea.  Here's what I did.  It
> > > may be slow and stupid but it worked like a charm.
> >
> > Sure, but I have been using oldconfig for previous major changes and
> > never had a problem like this before.
> 
> Now you know why the kernel devs keep telling you not to do it, heh :-)
> 

I don't know which kernel dev keeps saying that, but I'd recommend
he/she specify what is meant by "major version" since, historically:

2.6.22
^ ^ ^
| | +--- Revision
| +----- Minor version
+------- Major version

And therefore .20 -> .21 would not be considered a "major" version
change by most accounts.

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Albert W. Hopkins

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