[gentoo-user] genkernal refuses to finish - no initrd

2005-12-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Installing from scratch, using networked install, I've built two kernels from 2.6.14 sources, each time the mods I'd listed autoload fail to be loaded and are apparently never built. I resorted to usign genkernel since in the past that has always provided a working kernel and initrd. And

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernal refuses to finish - no initrd

2005-12-09 Thread Dale
Harry Putnam wrote: Installing from scratch, using networked install, I've built two kernels from 2.6.14 sources, each time the mods I'd listed autoload fail to be loaded and are apparently never built. I'm not big on the genkernel thing but I had the same thing earlier and I was doing it

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernal refuses to finish - no initrd

2005-12-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 04:24:26 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: Or alternatively it seems one could just use /proc/config.gz as /usr/src/linux/.config and run it manually. Except I'm at a loss as to how an intitrd is built manually from a kernel compile. You don't need an initrd when compiling your

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernal refuses to finish - no initrd

2005-12-09 Thread Peter O'Connor
Neil Bothwick wrote: When you compile a kernel manually, you choose which modules you need in the kernel, build those in and either leave the rest out or compile them as separate modules. Genkernel is intended to make things easier, and it may do when things work as they should, but I find it