Alexander Dalloz wrote: >> If I compile a kernel, and then say "make install", >> and the installed kernel does not work, I call that a bug. >> It's easy to get round - by changing root=LABEL=/ to root=/dev/hda? >> in grub.conf - so I would call it a cosmetic bug. > > I do not agree to call this a bug of any kind. Do you call each and > everything where you have default settings you personally do not like > and want to change a bug? ;) It's not a question of "liking" or "not liking" this feature. It is the fact that it causes a kernel panic that concerns me. >> > If you want to use the LABEL feature, >> > you need to have a correct labeled root partition, an initial ramdisk >> > image and BSD label support compiled into the kernel. >> >> If it requires all these preconditions to work properly, >> that seems to me a very good reason not to make it the default. > > No, not in my opinion. To build an own custom kernel requires a lot of > other reading and investigation too. If you do not understand the whole > process it would just be luck to get a working kernel. I don't agree. Apart from making sure one has the requisite software as listed in Documentation/Changes, and going at least once through a long list of options, I don't think one has to "understand the whole process" - that sounds as though one needs a PhD in Computer Science to compile the kernel. Actually I don't understand why people are so attached to the kernels ported with eg Fedora. I regard the kernel and distribution as more or less orthogonal, and would be unhappy with a distribution that made me use a given kernel. But this seems to be a minority opinion. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
