Re: Customizing the kernel installation process

2010-04-05 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 4 Apr 2010 12:00:58 -0400 (EDT), Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> ... >> I have a document on my web page which addresses the subject of >> creating a custom kernel for Debian. >> ... >> I welcome all comments. > > What about this: > http://wiki.debian.org/HowToRebuildAnOf

Re: Customizing the kernel installation process

2010-04-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, Apr 04 2010, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sun, 4 Apr 2010 14:19:08 -0400 (EDT), Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 04 2010, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: >>> >>> for the longest time I have downloaded the kernel tarball and built >>> outside of debian. however I'd like to use the debian nvi

Re: Customizing the kernel installation process

2010-04-04 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 4 Apr 2010 14:19:08 -0400 (EDT), Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sun, Apr 04 2010, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: >> >> for the longest time I have downloaded the kernel tarball and built >> outside of debian. however I'd like to use the debian nvidia packages, >> so I'm trying to build the kernel

Re: Customizing the kernel installation process

2010-04-04 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 4 Apr 2010 13:04:34 -0400 (EDT), Brian D. wrote: > On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 11:00:58 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> Stephen Powell wrote: >>> >>> I welcome all comments. Am I full of excrement? Is there something >>> missing? What can be improved? I am especially interested in >>> hearing f

Re: Customizing the kernel installation process

2010-04-04 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 20:34:13 -0400 (EDT), Paul E Condon wrote: > One of the reasons for boot > problems in general is the lack of stablity in the names assigned > by the kernel to SCSI devices. Lilo seems to require that you know > at lilo-update time what the kernel will think the name of a > devi

Re: Customizing the kernel installation process

2010-04-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, Apr 04 2010, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 11:00:58 -0500 > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > for the longest time I have downloaded the kernel tarball and built > outside of debian. however I'd like to use the debian nvidia packages, > so I'm trying to build the kernel in th

Re: Customizing the kernel installation process

2010-04-04 Thread briand
On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 11:00:58 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: > > I welcome all comments. Am I full of excrement? Is there something > > missing? What can be improved? I am especially interested in > > hearing from lilo users. lilo user here. works great. The _only_ go

Re: Customizing the kernel installation process

2010-04-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Stephen Powell wrote: I have seen a number of help requests on this list recently that indicate that there are a number of people who initially installed grub, had problems, and reverted to lilo. Then they experience subsequent problems when a kernel is updated, a new kernel is installed, or som

Re: Customizing the kernel installation process

2010-04-03 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100403_100841, Stephen Powell wrote: > I have seen a number of help requests on this list recently that > indicate that there are a number of people who initially installed > grub, had problems, and reverted to lilo. Then they experience > subsequent problems when a kernel is updated, a new k

Customizing the kernel installation process

2010-04-03 Thread Stephen Powell
I have seen a number of help requests on this list recently that indicate that there are a number of people who initially installed grub, had problems, and reverted to lilo. Then they experience subsequent problems when a kernel is updated, a new kernel is installed, or some kind of upgrade requir