On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Michael Hampicke wrote: <SNIP> >> >> I don't understand why people always say that they hate genkernel >> because they like to build the kernel on their own. You still can do >> this with genkernel. I've been doing it for years. <SNIP> > > > I tried genkernel and it was a miserable failure for me. So, for me, I > have no desire to use it. I have also read where others have the same > experience so it is not just me. It may work fine for some but for > others it does not. > > I plan to keep making mine the manual way. You can keep using genkernel > if you want. > > BTW, mine is like this: > > copy old config > make oldconfig > make all && make modules_install > copy kernel to /boot > > That to me seems a LOT easier and it also works very well for me. > > Dale > > :-) :-)
Until you add in the work of doing the initrd for each new kernel. I think that's Michael's point. I agree with you Dale. I do it the same way as you, except if I build an initrd I've done it completely by hand, building the whole directory structure, etc, then building it into the binary. That's a lot of work. Today we have two tools I know of, genkernel & dracut, that are represented as doing this work for us. I'm interested in what genkernel did wrong for you, as well as how to use both tools successfully. - Mark
