Gentoo round 4 (and Sorcerer's continued)

[A. Khattri]

On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, Matthew Carpenter wrote:

> On the serious side, I did experience issues booting my newly
> GenKernelled kernel.  I was relatively shocked, since it was supposedly
> the kernel that came on the LiveCD.  I will end up reconfiguring and
> trying again, but this was rather disheartening.
> My boot screen turns the characters green, the text thin, and I end up
> with a Kernel Oops.  I'll give more details tomorrow (since she's
> pluggin along right now).

IMHE, genkernel is more trouble than its worth - much better to build a
kernel "by hand".


-- 
GIPS /gips/ or /jips/ n.

 [analogy with MIPS]
   Giga-Instructions per Second (also possibly `Gillions of
   Instructions per Second'; see gillion).  In 1991, this is used
   of only a handful of highly parallel machines, but this is expected
   to change.  Compare KIPS.