Thanks to all. Now it cleaner to me :-) Only (probably) last question: If I want to play with the Xen I can compile SATA support directly to kernel and it will be still OK ???
Once again thanks a lot. Pat On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:08:31 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote > On Thursday 22 February 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:50:22 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > But you are mostly right, around here in Gentoo-land it's become > > > almost a guerilla rite of passage to be able to drop genkernel and > > > roll your own (raid users excepted of course) > > > > Why? RAID support is as simple as selecting a couple of options in > > menuconfig. Or were you thinking of LVM? That needs an initr* to use > > it on /. > > hardware raid or software raid? A decent controller will just do > raid and give you a b lock device to boot from. What about those > stupid el-cheapo so-called raid controllers that are actually little > more than bus adapters with four drives attached and you do the real > raid in software? That will need an initr* > > > Dropping genkernel is almost always a good thing. If you roll your > > own kernel, you will have a better understanding of what's going on > > and what you need. > > Yes, very true. But genkernel is a useful interim measure to help > get our users from using a binary blob kernel to successfully > rolling their own. > > alan > > -- > Optimists say the glass is half full, > Pessimists say the glass is half empty, > Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? > > Alan McKinnon > alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za > +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list