Gentoo: Kernel problems remain.

[Matthew Carpenter]

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Yup.  I gave up on Genkernel when it didn't work the first time.
Problem is that I spent all that time configuring the kernel to work
with my system and I'd rather not whack it and start over.  I don't
believe this to be FS-related since I have compiled every Linux
FileSystem into the Kernel except JFS.  And I'd rather not start over.
Something about the support for the various flash hardware gets rather
monotonous.

More importantly, what am I supposed to do here?  How do I clean up the
kernel tree to get rid of Genkernel's crap (if that is what the problem
is)?  Do I unmerge then emerge again?

Collins Richey wrote:
| 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?
|>|
|>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)?
|>
|>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).
|>
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| 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,
|

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