Re: [gentoo-server] Challenging Update Question

Collin Starkweather wrote:
> This may seem a novice question, but can you build a 2.6 kernel and use
> it to boot a system built against 2.4? That is, to divide the move into
> two testable components, kernel and everything else,

This will probably bite you in the ass. Most notably, support for devfs was dropped around 2.6.13, so unless you are managing a static /dev, you're going to need udev. However, I'm not sure if the baselayout from that long ago had any notion of udev or if you can even build udev while running a 2.4 kernel (this is probably less of an issue).

Really, the "best" way to do this is to just do a new install on the second drive. However, you might have some of the problems noted above, since you're still running a 2.4 kernel while building a system intended for 2.6.

I guess that your only remaining "sane" option is to build a new install on a "local" machine, and then rsync the entire thing over to the 2nd drive in your existing machine. Then setup grub to boot from the install on the 2nd drive by default.

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Andrew Gaffney                                 
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