Michael wrote: > On Tuesday, 16 April 2024 11:55:20 BST Dale wrote: > >> If you update often, it shouldn't take long answer the questions. If >> you do like me and don't update often, it may take longer but no more >> time than it would if you updated often and added all the time >> together. As far as I know, if one manually updates their kernel, make >> oldconfig is the safest and recommended method. You are prompted for >> new drivers/options and can see if they apply to you or not. If you >> don't want to update that way, I think there is a kernel that does it's >> own thing. I think it is sort of like boot media uses. If the time >> needed to answer all the questions isn't there, that may be a option to >> look into. It's called genkernel. I've never used it but read it works. > The sys-kernel/genkernel package will automatically build & install your > kernel and initramfs in /boot, but it will NOT prepare a kernel configuration > tuned to your hardware and desired options. It uses a generic default > configuration safe for most circumstances. The user can tweak the default > configuration to suit their needs and genkernel will use that. > > For quick(er) and automated kernel update and installation there are the > gentoo *distribution kernels*: > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Distribution_Kernel > > >
I thought genkernel was the one. Looking at your link, that would be a option more closely to what I thought genkernel was. So, genkernel requires more effort than I thought and distribution kernel is the more "automatic" way. Now to remember that. :/ I still like my old way. It works. It's rare that it fails. It's been years since I couldn't boot up due to a bad kernel. Still good to have options tho. Not everyone is like me. Thank goodness for that. ROFL Dale :-) :-)
