On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Arne Vogel wrote: > - I would recommend using the vanilla kernel since they tend to be the > most stable AFAICT.
I tend to roll my own. Actually I always roll my own to trim the fat and enable things I need that aren't enabled. I'll have to test this carefully though. > - Be very careful where installing kernel modules, and not to overwrite > your old > kernel image. Install the new kernel only from within the chrooted > environment. I plan on installing a 3rd SATS drive in this server for the Gentoo installation. My RH9 installation will remain intact until I'm satisfied that I'll never have to see it ever again. :) > - If your current kernel has the kexec patch, use it to boot into the > Gentoo installation without > changing the bootloader's default. That way, if anything goes wrong, the > next reboot will > reboot the previous distro. Now this sounds interesting. I don't know that I've ever heard of the kexec patch. It would be nice to be able to control where I boot after a failed boot. That would be most useful. I don't have a HW console server option yet (PCI card to control keyboard and video I/O for control from the BIOS to the actual login). I'll have to look into this further. > Think it through very thoroughly... you have only one try to ensure that > Gentoo either comes up > remote-maintainable, or your previous installation is automatically > rebooted into, everything > else will require phys. access... Yeah, I figure I can always get someone over there to run down and kick the box for me if I have to. I'd rather not though since it's headless. It's doable though. I'd like to find a way to maintain a grub install that could boot from either RH9 on hda1 or Gentoo on hda3. I think it can do it but I'll have to play with it a bit to be sure. Thanks for all the info! Justin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
