-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 01 March 2004 05:05 pm, Anders Karlsson wrote:
On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 21:13, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
After my very bad experience I just had backing out of an aborted 2.6 upgrade, I have to say, sometimes waiting is not all that bad. Having the latest release ensures you have most of the latest functionality, and /all/ of the latest bugs. It really depends on what you want out of Linux. I've decided compiling my own kernel is a bit too risky for the gain. I've been pretty slow at trying the 2.6 from the kernelmeister. And I think it won't be until it's on a CD that I try again.
I found that going to a 2.6 kernel (2.6.0-test7 was my first one) was a fair bit of work and did require booting old 2.4 kernel (home-cooked as well) a good few times to get the initrd sorted for the 2.6 kernel. Once that was working, 2.6 all the way up to 2.6.3 has been working fine. 2.6.0 and 2.6.1 required PreEmpt to be switched off, but since 2.6.2-rc2 something, that has been working well.
Compiling own kernel is not as hard as people make out but I will freely admit that it isn't a walk in the park sometimes. Usually, it works first time though. Bleeding edge people do try the -rc kernels, or -mm or -ck or any of the plethora of additional patch sets there are, as they might have fixes for their specific hardware or a bug they have hit. Win some and lose some. :-)
I have in general been okay with -rc and -pre kernels, as well as -ac and -aa patches. Only time I have ended up in a pickle was using BitKeeper to pull down the kernel tree, clone it and add linux-sound and 2.6-acpi patches from the respective experimental trees. That bit me, but not badly.
Happy Hacking Dudes,
Oh, it's not all that "hard". The hard part is figuring out what all the options mean, and which ones you really want/need. I haven't done it for quite some time simply because I am focused on other things, and don't want to risk screwing my system up. What happened this time with the rpm was the 2.6 locked up during the first boot, and the rollback was less than pretty. Partly because I decided to learn Grub in crisis mode. I know LILO well enough to have recovered much more gracefully. The big thing that threw me was (hd0,1)==/dev/hda2. But, I ended up fixing other things that were broken, learning lots of stuff about my system, and spending lots of time thumbing through the latest Linux in a Nutshell while waiting for the patches to reload from the server. I'm glad others are still compiling their own kernel. It needs to happen. STH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAQ756wX61+IL0QsMRAg3EAJ95K3+JMA/BdfMRIZa69fbuc4nhLgCeMwsC suH8gRoZL4p0Ljnw53RcobQ= =TYSS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----