Re: kernel autoconfig option?

[Mark Shelby]

Ha Ha! That's pretty funny!
And having hosed a system or two in my time I can totally relate...

On 7/12/07, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx <Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:18:55 EDT, Mark Shelby said:
>
> > Am I just crazy, or wouldn't this idea mke a lot of sense? Wouldn't it
> > pretty much make the kernel "idiot proof" when installing from source?
>
> That's usually not the place where idiots screw up.  It's stuff like
> loading an initrd that doesn't do LVM, and your / is on an LVM partition,
> or going from a kernel that used the IDE drivers to one that uses libata,
> and forgetting to fix /etc/fstab for the /dev/hd -> /dev/sd change, or ...
>
> You get the idea.  At some point, you have to insist that the user's clue
> must be  ----> THIS TALL in order to build their own kernel rather than going
> with what the distro installed.
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