On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 13:56, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 3:14 AM, Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info> wrote: >> Meh, I clicked 'Send' too fast. >> >> *My* suggested solution: >> >> Generate an initramfs containing udev. The hands-down easiest way is >> using genkernel's 'only create an initramfs' switch (sorry I forgot >> what exactly). > > good god no, please, anything but genkernel. > > That thing is an attempt to emulate binary distros which require an > initramfs to work properly (for any sane definition of "work") as the > person building the installer has no idea what hardware the user will > have. In Gentoo the user knows exactly what they have so there's no > need for a gigantic hardware-detecting workaround at boot time. > >> This needs to be done exactly once throughout the life of your VM. >> >> (To the herd of Gentoo graybeards, feel free to CMIIW) > > Or wait a few days for vapier's (posting under his other name of > spanky) sane advice to be implemented. His proposal is the sole voice > of reason in that bug thread.... >
True. But I was having problem installing 2 servers on top of XenServer. So I cheated and ran 'genkernel initramfs' exactly once. At least I got myself a booting system. :-) When SpanKY's makedev gets stabilized and pushed to baselayout, I'll then happily ditch the genkernel cheat for my next VMs :-) Rgds, -- Pandu E Poluan ~ IT Optimizer ~ Visit my Blog: http://pepoluan.posterous.com
