new motherboard - reinstall ubuntu?

mike pulsation at gmail.com
Mon Aug 22 22:13:56 UTC 2005


On 8/22/05, paul cooke <paul.cooke100 at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> On Monday 22 August 2005 04:40, Richard W. Knight wrote:
> > Before you do the upgrade, recompile the kernel with the appropriate
> > modules for your current system and the modules needed by the new MB.
> > The new kernel "should" boot on either new or old MB. After the upgrade,
> > you can remove the un-needed modules and tweek for the new MB.
> >
> 
> there's absolutely NO need to recompile your kernel with Ubuntu unless you've
> been mad enough to have created a custom one in the first place...

uh, yeah, because people who compile custom kernels are crazy...  i
never use vendor kernels for personal machines.  my firewall, my car
computer, my file server, and my workstation all have tailored 2.6
kernels.  for the longest time, my firewall box was a node on the
6bone running a custom 2.1.x kernel because it had ipv6 support in the
>~100 series.  for the ~40 servers i administer, i go with vendor
kernels because they are easier to administer.  however, since my
company is in a big antivirus push, i may end up going with custom
kernels on all servers in order to utilize etrust's realtime antivirus
monitor.  but even then, i will compile on one machine, then produce a
package which i will install on the other machines.

learning to compile your own kernel is an exercise in further
understanding linux.  there are MANY reasons why you would want to
build your own kernel.  don't let this guy prevent you from learning
more about linux.

-mike




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