Re: Linux Kernel Information & Install Kernel Script

["J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>]

On 20020207 Justin Piszcz wrote:
>Perhaps, however I began ik in December 2000.
>No /sbin/installkernel existed at the time.
>And /sbin/installkernel doesn't support grub on my rh72 box.
>Nor does it check dependencies, etc, etc.
>

You should really take a look at /sbin/installkernel from Mandrake.
Bootloader autodetection (lilo-grub), old kernel backup, adds entries in
loader config file... a bunch of features. Do not reinvent
the whell.

Perhaps it is time for RedHat to turn heads towards Mandrake.


>"H. Peter Anvin" wrote:
>
>> Followup to:  <3C6267B7.30A3020D@starband.net>
>> By author:    Justin Piszcz <war@starband.net>
>> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>> >
>> > New site: http://www.installkernel.com/
>> > It is very light at the moment.
>> >
>> > 1] Latest news about the kernel:
>> >    http://www.installkernel.com/kernel.html
>> >    Anything else I should add under 2.4.17?
>> >
>> > 2] Install Kernel (bash script which I am working on)
>> >     http://www.installkernel.com/ik/index.html
>> >     ik-0.8.9: Adds -b option, you can build and install the kernel from
>> > the current directory with -b.
>> >     Summary of ik:
>> >     Install Kernel (ik) is a bash script that installs the Linux kernel
>> > and automatically sets up LILO or GRUB.
>> >     It also saves your kernel configuration each time you do an install.
>> > This allows you to restore the newest
>> >     configuration file when you make a new kernel. This script is
>> > intended for two groups of people; people
>> >     new to compiling kernels, and people who are tired of moving files
>> > around and editing their bootloader
>> >     configurations every time they install a new kernel.
>> >
>>
>> Sounds like you should make this work as /sbin/installkernel.
>>
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