From: Harald Dunkel <harri@afaics.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: how to avoid that install.sh goes mad, if I am not root?
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 23:08:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D3A03CA.2060507@afaics.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ihbvd1$jbj$3@dough.gmane.org>
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On 01/21/11 13:49, WANG Cong wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 22:47:56 +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
>>
>> First, at least on x86, the kernel will look for the 'installkernel'
>> executable first in your own ~/bin/, so if you have that then it will
>> override /sbin/installkernel.
>>
>
> That still doesn't look like a good solution.
>
Same for me.
Obviously running /sbin/installkernel is not reasonable for
UID != 0 (or if $FAKEROOTKEY is set), so I would suggest to
skip /sbin/installkernel and the default Lilo setup in
install.sh for this case.
Only a suggestion, of course.
Regards
Harri
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-21 22:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-20 19:16 how to avoid that install.sh goes mad, if I am not root? Harald Dunkel
2011-01-20 21:47 ` Mikael Pettersson
2011-01-21 12:49 ` WANG Cong
2011-01-21 22:08 ` Harald Dunkel [this message]
2011-01-24 10:21 ` [Patch] make installkernel configurable from command line (was Re: how to avoid that install.sh goes mad, if I am not root?) Américo Wang
2011-01-24 11:43 ` Mikael Pettersson
2011-01-25 5:48 ` Américo Wang
2011-01-26 10:02 ` Mikael Pettersson
2011-01-28 7:58 ` WANG Cong
2011-01-28 7:58 ` WANG Cong
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