On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 15:39:59 -0500 > Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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. > > And using genkernel is pretty fucking pointless while it doesn't > support suspend/resume right. > > Anyone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, I don;t use genkernel so > don;t know the truth from experience. I only read what others say, > claiming that genkernel doesn't support suspend/resume.
Resume/suspend or hibernate/whatever-the-inverse-of-hibernate-is-called? Because resume/suspend has nothing to do with an initramfs (being genkernel or dracut or whatever), since it doesn't "boot" the machine again (contrary to hibernate/whatever-etc.) My laptop has used dracut since months ago, and suspends/resumes just fine, as it does my media center. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
