Gentoo: Kernel problems remain.

[Collins Richey]

On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 22:58:18 -0500, Matthew Carpenter <matt at eisgr.com> wrote:
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> Net Llama! wrote:
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> | urmmm.  i know nothing about gentoo.  Was a new initrd created with this
> | new kernel?  BTW, which kernel version is this?
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> I don't know much about how I got the initrd.  It just showed up :)
> This is 2.6.9
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> | Where is support for your filesystem(s)?
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> All Linux FS's are built into the kernel.  The Intel ATAPI driver is
> comppiled into the kernel.  I attempted to take advantage of the source
> distro and rolling my own kernel by compiling the hardware stuff in,
> leaving only USB and PCMCIA stuff to be modules (or things I might want
> to play with).
> 

OK, it looks like you have taken my recommendation to build your own
kernel, but you still have the genkernel crap in grub, and you have
not regenerated the initrd that it depends on.

Just use a grub stanza like this (if using separate /boot) - hda6 =
/boot hda7 = /

title whatever
    root (hd0,5)
    kernel (hd0,5)/whateverkernelname root=/dev/hda7 ro


or this if /boot is not a separate partition) - hda7 = /

title whatever
    root (hd0,6)
    kernel (hd0,6)/boot/whateverkernelname root=/dev/hda7 ro

HTH,

-- 
 Collins