Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:46:38 -0400 | From | "Mark Shelby" <> | Subject | Re: kernel autoconfig option? |
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Ha Ha! That's pretty funny! And having hosed a system or two in my time I can totally relate...
On 7/12/07, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:18:55 EDT, Mark Shelby said: > > > Am I just crazy, or wouldn't this idea mke a lot of sense? Wouldn't it > > pretty much make the kernel "idiot proof" when installing from source? > > That's usually not the place where idiots screw up. It's stuff like > loading an initrd that doesn't do LVM, and your / is on an LVM partition, > or going from a kernel that used the IDE drivers to one that uses libata, > and forgetting to fix /etc/fstab for the /dev/hd -> /dev/sd change, or ... > > You get the idea. At some point, you have to insist that the user's clue > must be ----> THIS TALL in order to build their own kernel rather than going > with what the distro installed. > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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