On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 03:37:01AM +0100, Morten Nilsen wrote: > Alain Fauconnet wrote: > > The same box boots OK with RAID support compiled static, but well, > > I like the dynamic way and I'd love to understand what's going on. > > I just have to ask.. > what could you possibly gain from loading something as basic as the disk > drivers dynamically? .. aside from the whole calamity of booting > multible boxen using the same kernel image, which was brought up earlier
That's the precise point. Having a single .config file, same homegrown kernel "package" (actually just a prebuilt kernel and a script to install it into /boot and lilo.conf, in a tar.gz file) for all my servers running TSL 2.2 that require a 2.6 kernel for h/w support. Just making my life a bit easier... > > > Trustix Linux 2.2 > > Kernel 2.6.15.4 compiled from source > > If you are compiling 2.6 kernels, exactly why aren't you using TSL3? > I just have to ask.. I've already explained this earlier: TSL 2.2 is our current standard O/S for our server farm and TSL 3.0 will not be until: - we've made TSL 2.2 *really* our one and only standard (still a few old RH 8.0 or even 7.3 boxes lying around) - the Trustix folks themselves designate 3.0 as the recommended, production-grade, stable version (not the case last time I've checked) - we have tested the compatibility of all our source-built apps, utilities, homegrown scripts etc. - I have trained myself on all the things that are new in 3.0, and convinced myself that the things I currently dislike in 3.0 are actually OK and it's "just me" - we have a roll-out plan > > > Mkinitrd 4.1.18-2 RPM from FC3 installed in place > > why in heavens name would you take an rpm from FC3? use the TSL3 rpm > instead.. Well, I'd love to, but what's the name of the RPM that has mkinitrd in TSL 3.0 please? I don't see anything called mkinitrd at http://http.trustix.org/pub/trustix/releases/trustix-3.0/i586/trustix/rpms/ Greets, _Alain_ _______________________________________________ tsl-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.trustix.org/mailman/listinfo/tsl-discuss
