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| -rw-r--r-- | 2024-01-18-installkernel-merge/2024-01-18-installkernel-merge.en.txt | 19 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/2024-01-18-installkernel-merge/2024-01-18-installkernel-merge.en.txt b/2024-01-18-installkernel-merge/2024-01-18-installkernel-merge.en.txt index 991c95d..568ce14 100644 --- a/2024-01-18-installkernel-merge/2024-01-18-installkernel-merge.en.txt +++ b/2024-01-18-installkernel-merge/2024-01-18-installkernel-merge.en.txt @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Title: Merging of installkernel-gentoo and installkernel-systemd Author: Andrew Ammerlaan <andrewammerlaan@gentoo.org> Posted: 2024-01-18 -Revision: 3 +Revision: 4 News-Item-Format: 2.0 Display-If-Installed: sys-kernel/installkernel Display-If-Installed: sys-kernel/installkernel-gentoo @@ -33,9 +33,12 @@ User Action Required (GRUB users) Previously sys-kernel/installkernel-gentoo provided kernel installation automation for users of GRUB via USE=grub. The new sys-kernel/installkernel provides the same functionality, which now works with both the traditional -installkernel and systemd's kernel-install. Users of GRUB should check that -the "grub" USE flag is enabled to ensure that systemd's kernel-install uses -the correct layout that grub-mkconfig understands. +installkernel and systemd's kernel-install. + +Users of GRUB should therefore: +- check that the "grub" USE flag is enabled +to ensure that systemd's kernel-install uses the correct layout that +grub-mkconfig understands. Users of GRUB may wish to explicitly choose either the traditional installkernel or systemd's kernel-install, in which case they may do so @@ -50,8 +53,10 @@ User Action Required (systemd-boot users) Previously sys-kernel/installkernel-systemd provided kernel installation automation for users of systemd-boot. sys-kernel/installkernel provides -the same functionality but only via systemd's kernel-install. Users -of systemd-boot should therefore ensure that the "systemd" USE flag is enabled +the same functionality but only via systemd's kernel-install. + +Users of systemd-boot should therefore: +- ensure that the "systemd" USE flag is enabled when upgrading to >=sys-kernel/installkernel-14. Users who are using the distribution kernels (i.e. gentoo-kernel(-bin)) should @@ -75,7 +80,7 @@ plugins should either ensure that the same kernel installation method will be used after upgrading to >=sys-kernel/installkernel-14 (via USE=+/-systemd) or migrate these custom plugins (details are on the wiki [1]). -Users of bootloaders other then GRUB or systemd-boot may want to retain the +Users of bootloaders other than GRUB or systemd-boot may want to retain the traditional /boot layout. They may do so by either: - disabling the "systemd" USE flag, or - when the "systemd" USE flag is enabled, enabling the "grub" USE flag as well. |