Installing kernel's for local boot

[Michael Tautschnig]

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> >
> >    > Anyhow, following that stuff..  what's the best way to configure fai 
> >    to > install a specific kernel for class?
> >Build your own kernel using make-kpkg. This will make a Debian package
> >out of this kernel. The create a local Debian package repository, add
> >a line to the soures.lsit file and add the name of your kernel package
> >to the class in package_config.
> >  
> Alright, so I'd make a local repository on my fai server, place that 
> debian package inside of it, and add it to package_config.  Does this 
> handle updating menu.lst and the modules for me?  (sorry if that's a 
> noob question, previously I just wrote scripts to manipulate these files 
> for me)
>
I'm not absolutely sure on this one, because I don't manage my menu.lst this
way, but usually either there is no need to modify menu.lst (as all kernels make
/boot/vmlinuz a proper symlink) or menu.lst is updated automatically, if it
contains appropriate placeholders as in the version shipped by Debian.

About the modules: Did you mean /etc/modules? If it does need updating (which is
quite rare in times of udev), you can do it setting MODULESLIST in one of the
.var files in the class/ directory. This variable is then handled by
scripts/FAIBASE/10-misc, if you haven't changed the example configs too much.

HTH,
Michael

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