From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IG8Vy-0000HN-6y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 07:21:02 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l717Jm3f006286; Wed, 1 Aug 2007 07:19:48 GMT Received: from imf16aec.mail.bellsouth.net (imf16aec.mail.bellsouth.net [205.152.59.64]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l717Faud001579 for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2007 07:15:36 GMT Received: from ibm58aec.bellsouth.net ([209.214.144.182]) by imf16aec.mail.bellsouth.net with ESMTP id <20070801071535.WHOZ21055.imf16aec.mail.bellsouth.net@ibm58aec.bellsouth.net> for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2007 03:15:35 -0400 Received: from [209.214.144.182] by ibm58aec.bellsouth.net with ESMTP id <20070801071534.TNG5940.ibm58aec.bellsouth.net@[209.214.144.182]> for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2007 03:15:34 -0400 Message-ID: <46B0330E.7040806@bellsouth.net> Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 02:15:26 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.5) Gecko/20070724 SeaMonkey/1.1.3 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Switching from Genkernel to manual build References: <4ef07b8c0707312108i56bc5129qac7e179e049f9890@mail.gmail.com> <46B02374.8030009@silvanoc.com> In-Reply-To: <46B02374.8030009@silvanoc.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id l717Jm41006286 X-Archives-Salt: 4bf76a46-165c-46de-bbd2-52eb82e958ec X-Archives-Hash: 9bb62fee1f2f1fedf2ad2dbcca08e8d7 Abraham Mar=C3=ADn P=C3=A9rez wrote: > Dan Cowsill escribi=C3=B3: >> Is there any specific process to or problems one might encounter as a >> result of switching from a Genkernel built kernel over to a manually >> built kernel? >> >> Thanks. >> >> =20 > As far as I can think of it would be enough getting the config file > generated by genkernel, editing it through make config or similar and > go ahead. Actually, if you take it as is it would work, but probably > you'll have lots of stuff you don't want/need, so your task will be > mainly tuning it down; be careful with those things you think you > don't need, I'd cut parameters away in several step (change config, > build, install, try a couple of days, then change again). > > HTH, > Abraham And always keep a working kernel as a backup just in case you get a bad one. I keep a few for that reason myself like this: > root@smoker / # ls -al /boot/bzImage-2.6.* > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2189488 Jan 4 2007 > /boot/bzImage-2.6.18.gentoo-r6-1 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2357808 Jun 8 05:47 /boot/bzImage-2.6.20-r8-1 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2389616 Jun 8 07:01 /boot/bzImage-2.6.20-r8-2 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2396880 Jun 13 01:53 /boot/bzImage-2.6.20-r8-3 > root@smoker / # I try to keep one from a earlier version plus at least one older of the current version. Also, you may want to keep a copy of the .config file too. It can be a life saver. I hope that helps. Dale :-) :-)=20 --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list