On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 23:21:37 -0400 Gary Dale <garyd...@rogers.com> wrote:
> On 10/07/12 10:52 PM, Celejar wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 19:20:05 -0400 > > Gary Dale<garyd...@rogers.com> wrote: ... > >> Having a portable kernel is a lot simpler than trying to rescue a > >> non-bootable machine from a live CD. > > True - but then I can just grab a distro stock kernel before I swap > > HDDs. > > > You still need to go through the aggravation of booting from a live CD > then setting up a chroot environment just to get around the fact that > you compiled a non-portable kernel. You wouldn't have to do any of that > if you had just stuck with the stock kernel. I must have misunderstood what you meant. If machine A is non-bootable, then I need to recover using resources from machine B. But even if machine B generally runs my custom kernel, before I pull its HDD and move it to A, I can just add a stock kernel to B. Can you explain what you mean here? Celejar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120710232849.f4ea25a1.cele...@gmail.com