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SubjectRe: kernel autoconfig option?
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.
>
>
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