On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 09:49:48AM -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
On 01/23/2012 11:32 PM, Anisha Kaul wrote:
On 24 January 2012 10:56, Larry Finger
wrote: One thing you did wrong appears to be that you built the kernel as root. That is definitely not recommended.
I didn't know that. Will take care in future. But, what is so harmful about that?
Maybe nothing; however, if there is a bug in the Kmake process, severe damage may be done. At one point, such a bug destroyed /dev/null when the kernel was built as root. Once that happened, nothing would boot. It is best to avoid any such possibility.
Even better, we once had a bug that would delete / entirely if you built the kernel as root. A lot of us thought we should have just kept that bug in there... greg k-h -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+owner@opensuse.org