On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Arne Vogel wrote:With vanilla I meant none of the patched versions that are popular with some Gentoo users.
- 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.
(gentoo-sources, love-sources...) For me, the original kernel is still the most trustworthy
however (I never had a boot-up kernel panic with the vanilla version IIRC).
- 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. :)
That's a good idea in case something goes wrong.
NP!- 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
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