Gentoo: Kernel problems remain.

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
>
> 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.

You didn't save the kernel configuration that you chose?

>
> 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?

The non-gentoo specific solution would be to just download the kernel
source from kernel.org.

>
> 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:
> |><snip>
> |>
> |>|
> |>|
> |>| 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
> |><snip>
> |>
> |>|
> |>| 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).
> |>
> |
> |
> | 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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> Matthew Carpenter
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