Re: pre-compiled kernels

I completely agree with you.  I've had a number of issues using
genkernel in VMWare, including VMWare 5 and VMWare ACE.  I almost
always get a failure when creating initrd.


On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 23:24:58 -0600, Andrew Gaffney <[email protected]> wrote:
> As much as I dislike the idea, I think we should provide a pre-compiled
> genkernel kernel on the new universal LiveCD. Before I start getting flamed,
> hear me out.
> 
> I just spent 2 hours waiting for genkernel to build a 2.4.28 kernel in vmware on
> an Athlon 1.3GHz w/192MB RAM allocated to the virtual machine...only to have it
> fail. Up until the kernel compile, the stage3 install took ~6 minutes from a
> blank disk.
> 
> Most people who use genkernel use the default config. In the current version of
> the installer, the only kernel options are genkernel and building a kernel from
> a .config that the user provides. If the user can't do 'genkernel --menuconfig',
> then they can't change anything from the default config. Why make them sit
> through the compilation when the output would be identical to a pre-compiled binary?
> 
> I myself would never use this feature, but I'm sure a lot of people would
> appreciate it. A genkernel generated kernel is one step away from a binary
> distro's provided kernel. Why not take that extra baby step to make a few lazy
> users happy?
> 
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> Andrew Gaffney
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> Installer Project
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