Re: Compiling kernel on iMac for the first time..

[Rory Campbell-Lange <rory@campbell-lange.net>]

Ethan Benson (erbenson@alaska.net) wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 05:09:50PM -0700, Matt Brubeck wrote:
> > On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > 
> > > > If you use the debian kernel-package to build your kernel, you can
> > > > just leave yaboot in the default configuration, and the packaging
> > > > system will automatically update the appropriate symlinks.

> > > yes but by default there is no fallback image.

> that was when yaboot shipped with a config file, now it doesn't and
> yabootconfig doesn't put a backup image in by default.
> 
> i could add that i suppose, what do people think?

If the backup image would be used when a new image was unusable (eg I
ended a config line with "" and yaboot wouldn't use my new config file
last week) I reckon that would be tremendously useful.

Rory