Eliezer Croitoru wrote: > On 18/03/2012 11:52, Dale wrote: >> Peter Humphrey wrote: >>> On Saturday 17 March 2012 12:54:53 Eliezer Croitoru wrote: >>> >>>> genkernel is pretty simple to use if you ask me. >>>> just >>>> >>>> emerege genkernel >>>> >>>> and then use >>>> >>>> genkerenl --menuconfig all >>>> >>>> it will do everything for you the same as in a regular kernel >>>> compiling. >>>> >>>> you have instructions on how to use genkernel on the handbook. >>> >>> What's more, you don't have to keep going through menuconfig if you >>> already have a running self-compiled kernel. Just copy the .config >>> file to >>> somewhere safe (I use, e.g. /boot/config-3.2) and call genkernel with >>> the >>> option to specify the config file it's to use. Sorry but I can't tell >>> you >>> exactly what the parameter is as I don't have genkernel on this box. >>> Someone will be along in a moment though. >>> >> >> >> I used genkernel when I was first installing Gentoo. I let that thing >> build half a dozen kernels, chroot in between too. You know what, not >> one of them worked. That was a long time ago but let me check something >> here.< spit spit spit> I had to get the bad taste out of my mouth. >> lol >> >> I might also add, I started using a init thingy a few weeks ago, dracut >> tool. For some crazy reason, when I boot with the init thingy, my >> system doesn't work right. When I boot without the init thingy, it >> works fine. Still trying to figure out that one. It's in another >> thread. >> >> I don't see myself using genkernel any time soon. Right now, I'm having >> flashbacks to hal with regard to dracut and the whole init thingy /usr >> mess. > i have used genkernel for a long time and all of my genkernel > compilation works really good. > i have (counting, 1 very very big production server, 2 small production > server, 3 home server, 4 +5 +6 + 7 +8 of vms runing genkernel with > several services such as mail mail filtering web server and monitoring) > so what can i say? all these machines will say other then you. > > Regards, > Eliezer > >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) >>
Odd, it can work on all those yet fail on a relatively simple system. Makes one wonder. Maybe it is to complicated? Sort of starting to sound like udev isn't it? lol I didn't say it would fail for the OP. I just said it never worked for me. Compiling my own has worked for me. I have only had one failure with that. I might also add, I have read where others have nightmares about genkernel. I'm not the only one. 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"
