From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Rk4M0-0000cM-DD for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 09 Jan 2012 01:48:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1988021C062; Mon, 9 Jan 2012 01:48:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f181.google.com (mail-yx0-f181.google.com [209.85.213.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4454CE0025 for ; Mon, 9 Jan 2012 01:47:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yenm3 with SMTP id m3so1514073yen.40 for ; Sun, 08 Jan 2012 17:47:47 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=hHQmnizwBhkFKcTGKY+itZnPbuRWJC5Q1S0W75s+8UI=; b=DE9mWZ901P7vd9WH0XJ2NYU57bG43FWidPGtTxwJLDFNCUTGecQfEBDtmDfmyRydTs Vc77hzdK6dCZczNu2/PDNKM5W/gMYLWLB5eNFdYoWRvkreY2nKUz6V/39PWaMqkICUuA 4ilBsIp6dNfzaJxPV5bia92MkdfDGonnT8X78= Received: by 10.236.116.129 with SMTP id g1mr17435001yhh.107.1326073667802; Sun, 08 Jan 2012 17:47:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-65-42.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.65.42]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f17sm37430896ann.21.2012.01.08.17.47.46 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 08 Jan 2012 17:47:47 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F0A4741.6050701@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2012 19:47:45 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20120104 Firefox/7.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.4.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Question kernel upgrades for dracut users References: <4F0A3601.5080700@gmail.com> <4F0A3E0B.90409@fu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <4F0A3E0B.90409@fu-berlin.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: dd806cca-99a1-4a7e-bd70-abe94aa73799 X-Archives-Hash: 2885fd20b529d23f45cd548640c0cd2c 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"