I agree, early genkernels did a good job, then it just started causing too much grief. When faultfinding things like driver problems, boot problems or almost anything kernel, dumping genkernel is a good first step. I suppose they might have fixed it by now, but the problems it caused me means I am in no hurry to try it again.
BillK On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 19:47 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 07:06:14 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > > > > Its been said before: many of us dont use genkernel because of various > > > problems... > > > Problems with genkernel? Works fine for me ;-). I haven't use lilo in > > ages though. > > It does cause a lot of problems though. We it works right, you just > accept it without knowing why it's working right. When it goes wrong, you > usually don't know why it has gone wrong. > > genkernel originally simplified kernel building, up to around version > 1.6, but later versions made a seemingly complicated but actually > quite simple task into a seeming simple but actually complicated task. > > -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
