GRUB booting problem

duryodhan · 10-13-2007, 01:43 PM

Ofcourse it does, but generic is not a bad thing either eh?

I am just espousing what Pat says, I myself do what you do ....

arubin · 10-13-2007, 04:24 PM

Using the huge kernel isn't so bad. What the documentation actually says is

Quote:

As stated earlier, it is recommended that you use one of the generic kernels rather than the huge kernels; the huge kernel is primarily intended as an "installer" and "emergency" kernel in case you forget to make an initrd.
However, if you do use one of the huge kernels, you will likely encounter
errors like this:
kobject_add failed for uhci_hcd with -EEXIST, don't try to register
These occur because the respective drivers are compiled statically into the huge kernels but udev tries to load them anyway. These errors should be safe to ignore, but if you really don't want them to appear, you can blacklist the modules that try to load in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist. However, make sure you remove them from the blacklist if you ever decide to use the (recommended) generic kernels.

duryodhan · 10-13-2007, 10:08 PM

I know.But when you actually use it, and it slows down the system etc.

We are all experienced users, what I am trying to get at over here is that noobs should just use generic smps over huge smps. If they can, then ofcourse they should recompile their kernel. But the huge kernel makes your system really really down, and it doesn't work that well either .