Re: [gentoo-user] Question kernel upgrades for dracut users

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> On 09.01.2012 01:34, Dale wrote:
>> Howdy,
>>
>> I'm about to upgrade my kernel.  Do I have to update the init
>> thingy too or should it work without updating with each kernel
>> upgrade?  I would be going from a 3.1.5 to a 3.2.0-r1.
>>
>> While I am at it, I version my bzImages.  Can I version my init
>> thinys too?  Have one for each version of kernel in other words?
>> That would be assuming I need to have it updated as asked above.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)  :-)
>>
>>
> Hi Dale,
>
> You can use your old "init thingy" if you don't need any modules
> inside it. The other stuff normally doesn't change.
> Since most setups use modules, you could experience troubles...
>
> The other way would be - as you already proposed - to create an "init
> thingy" per kernel, eg initramfs-3.2.0-r1.
> If you use grub2 the grub2-mkconfig script searches for these
> (matching the name for your kernel image) and normally it works out of
> the box.
> FOr grub legacy (and lilo, i assume) you would need to make matching
> entries manually.
>
> With kind regards,
>
> Hinnerk
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux)
> Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/
>
> iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPCj4LAAoJEJwwOFaNFkYcA80IAIuYdR8nBiEKdZnUj5TyT/Oz
> /oYdw7Kn8bwqsMvBMF8WhEbQlwzy/W/7QaMhU1MOUjFHHHkcFkNe6240gfkbhEEg
> J52xj2vsUeT9YjgWEcrhmbFjZi3QNa9NxqVqpEXTFotfKcrX5ym0wdWQ7sW5VhHZ
> a4TNtoTu/Kt0pCjyi9ex9j3s1iJKxGG3vwJPrPwT3cc7+1adOE53rgpwjl9avklD
> IL72XmhDrii/C3Im78TqrqBZ1fjjRgEmzwGmdBp2Hduk7w5iEW5dXh4nGq/4+8Xi
> C1/o+y8acC1+IXRJBbAGMSoVdkmU9difo33CtnjMyjwPjHpkq16TWGj0w12eD8s=
> =lP1r
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>
>

I'm on the old Grub.  I keep saying I'm going to switch but . . . . . . 
. If you are using the new grub, how difficult is the switch?  Scale 
from one to ten would be fine.  1 being pulling teeth and 10 a walk in 
the park and your eyes were closed. o_O

I always keep a older boot line available so I will test this but I may 
version them anyway, just to be safe.  At least I know there is a chance 
that it would work if the init thingy didn't build correctly.  I tend to 
skip versions of kernels too.  Sometimes I go several versions.  Plus, 
honestly, I'm not even 100% sure I am booting the init thingy.  I posted 
a thread about it but no replies.  I'm about 95% sure tho that is is 
booting the init do hicky.  Can you tell I'm not really liking the init 
thingy yet?

Does the dracut init mount /usr if it is on a separate partition or do I 
have to set something to tell it too?  Right now it's not but I do plan 
to redo my set up.  I'm planning to put everything on LVM except / and 
its friends.

Thanks.

Dale

:-)  :-)

-- 
I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!

Miss the compile output?  Hint:
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"