On Wednesday 24 November 2004 02:03, Jeremy Rosengren wrote: > If they're that important to you, I'd imagine you'd find ways to make > backup copies of them to prevent complete loss in the event of an > accidental deletion. Otherwise, you can always get at them by > reinstalling the kernel RPM. I can only guess on what the original intend of this mail was - but how does the config get into /boot if you roll your own kernel? if the support for config.gz is on, you're guaranteed to find the config of the currently running kernel in /proc/config.gz, no matterr if you run a stock or your own kernel, no matter how many kernels you have installed, ... I can see the benefit - especially since I'm maintaining a environment with a couple hundret linux boxes in various configurations. Peter.
