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:

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

Re: Customizing the kernel installation process

2010-04-04 Thread briand
On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 11:00:58 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com 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.

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 hvw59...@care2.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

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 device

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 from lilo

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 in the

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 nvidia

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

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