The pink and grey galahs have returned!

I posted a couple of days ago about compiling the 6.6.52 kernel:

• Kernel 6.6.52 compiled — September 25, 2024

But then built QV and discovered that btrfs support is a module. Require it builtin, and want to enable kexec, so have recompiled 6.6.52 with these:

CONFIG_BTRFS_FS=y
CONFIG_KEXEC=y

The reason for that last one is that the menu in the initrd has an item to run the Xorg Wizard if the video is broken. That requires the "nomodeset" kernel command-line option. The initrd has the 'kexec' utility, which can restart the kernel with a new set of command-line parameters.

Did a quick test, the kexec thing flashed up an error message, then booted as normal. So, that needs to be fixed.

It is nice to be running QV again. The birds are back:

Tested a few things; all working so far. Some items on the to-do list, hope to be able to upload QV soon.    

Tags: quirky