Re: [gentoo-user] Boot hangs after install, no error

2010-07-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 27 June 2010 10:50:55 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday 26 June 2010 18:31:05 James Wall wrote: You could also check out Pappy's Kernel Seeds at http://www.kernel-seeds.org.org/ I will - thanks. Turned out it was much simpler than kernel config - it was BOINC. Now all I have to

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot hangs after install, no error

2010-06-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 26 June 2010 18:31:05 James Wall wrote: You could also check out Pappy's Kernel Seeds at http://www.kernel-seeds.org.org/ I will - thanks. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot hangs after install, no error

2010-06-26 Thread James Wall
On 6/23/2010 4:36 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 23 June 2010 03:29:16 Dale wrote: By all means, use genkernel. I will, RSN. This nearly new, shiny, quad-core box is as sluggish as hell, and I want to find out why. So I'll use genkernel to install everything under the sun and see if

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot hangs after install, no error

2010-06-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 23 June 2010 03:29:16 Dale wrote: By all means, use genkernel. I will, RSN. This nearly new, shiny, quad-core box is as sluggish as hell, and I want to find out why. So I'll use genkernel to install everything under the sun and see if I can work it out. -- Rgds Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot hangs after install, no error

2010-06-22 Thread Bill Longman
On 06/21/2010 03:37 PM, Dale wrote: I'm not saying you can't use it just that it doesn't always work. Thing is, when someone uses genkernel to make the kernel, when someone asks 'did you include some driver', the usual answer is 'I don't know, I used genkernel' and then nobody knows whether

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot hangs after install, no error

2010-06-22 Thread Dale
Bill Longman wrote: On 06/21/2010 03:37 PM, Dale wrote: I'm not saying you can't use it just that it doesn't always work. Thing is, when someone uses genkernel to make the kernel, when someone asks 'did you include some driver', the usual answer is 'I don't know, I used genkernel' and then

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot hangs after install, no error

2010-06-21 Thread Bill Longman
snip This is funny. I have NEVER got a genkernel to work on my system. Actually, on any system. I'm not sure the OP would know that kernel is any better then the one he makes. Dale, If you've never gotten genkernel to work, you should try this little script that I've used for the past few

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot hangs after install, no error

2010-06-21 Thread Dale
Bill Longman wrote: snip This is funny. I have NEVER got a genkernel to work on my system. Actually, on any system. I'm not sure the OP would know that kernel is any better then the one he makes. Dale, If you've never gotten genkernel to work, you should try this little script

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot hangs after install, no error

2010-06-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: I don't use genkernel anymore. I just roll my own. That way, I know what is in there and what is not. Then if something doesn't work, I know if it is the kernel or something else. With genkernel, you won't have a clue what it is since you don't know much if anything about the

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot hangs after install, no error

2010-06-21 Thread Dale
Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: I don't use genkernel anymore. I just roll my own. That way, I know what is in there and what is not. Then if something doesn't work, I know if it is the kernel or something else. With genkernel, you won't have a clue what it is since you don't know

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot hangs after install, no error

2010-06-21 Thread Bill Longman
On 06/21/2010 12:01 PM, Dale wrote: Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: I don't use genkernel anymore. I just roll my own. That way, I know what is in there and what is not. Then if something doesn't work, I know if it is the kernel or something else. With genkernel, you won't have a

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot hangs after install, no error

2010-06-21 Thread Dale
Bill Longman wrote: On 06/21/2010 12:01 PM, Dale wrote: Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: I don't use genkernel anymore. I just roll my own. That way, I know what is in there and what is not. Then if something doesn't work, I know if it is the kernel or something else.

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot hangs after install, no error

2010-06-21 Thread Bill Longman
On 06/21/2010 01:23 PM, Dale wrote: The only thing that genkernel would add is your initrd. The kernel is exactly the same, whether you compile it with make or through genkernel. Do a test and you'll see. (I'm assuming we're both talking about gentoo-sources, not vanilla-sources. Either way,

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot hangs after install, no error

2010-06-21 Thread Dale
Bill Longman wrote: On 06/21/2010 01:23 PM, Dale wrote: The only thing that genkernel would add is your initrd. The kernel is exactly the same, whether you compile it with make or through genkernel. Do a test and you'll see. (I'm assuming we're both talking about gentoo-sources, not

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot hangs after install, no error

2010-06-18 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 14:26 +1000, Jake Moe wrote: No, I was tempted to try genkernel, but again, OCD got the best of me; I like Gentoo because I tell it what I want and need, and it does that and nothing else. Genkernel, in my understand, does everything (and apparently does it pretty

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot hangs after install, no error

2010-06-18 Thread Dale
Albert Hopkins wrote: On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 14:26 +1000, Jake Moe wrote: No, I was tempted to try genkernel, but again, OCD got the best of me; I like Gentoo because I tell it what I want and need, and it does that and nothing else. Genkernel, in my understand, does everything (and

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot hangs after install, no error

2010-06-17 Thread Roger Mason
Jake, Jake Moe jakesaddr...@gmail.com writes: I've just completed a fresh Gentoo installation on a new laptop, and strangely, after I choose the entry from the Grub screen, all I get is: Booting `Gentoo Linux 2.6.32-r7` root (hd0,1) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot hangs after install, no error

2010-06-17 Thread Jake Moe
On 17/06/10 20:38, Roger Mason wrote: Jake, Jake Moe jakesaddr...@gmail.com writes: I've just completed a fresh Gentoo installation on a new laptop, and strangely, after I choose the entry from the Grub screen, all I get is: Booting `Gentoo Linux 2.6.32-r7` root (hd0,1)

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot hangs after install, no error

2010-06-17 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 13:54 +1000, Jake Moe wrote: I had tried to see if there was anything special about the hardware, but couldn't find anything. I'm still of the opinion that it's something to do with the kernel, but I've given up on amd64 (I'm not sure if I've had an amd64 Gentoo PC

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot hangs after install, no error

2010-06-17 Thread Jake Moe
On 18/06/10 14:05, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 13:54 +1000, Jake Moe wrote: I had tried to see if there was anything special about the hardware, but couldn't find anything. I'm still of the opinion that it's something to do with the kernel, but I've given up on amd64

[gentoo-user] Boot hangs after install, no error

2010-06-16 Thread Jake Moe
I've just completed a fresh Gentoo installation on a new laptop, and strangely, after I choose the entry from the Grub screen, all I get is: Booting `Gentoo Linux 2.6.32-r7` root (hd0,1) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 kernel /kernel-2.6.32-gentoo-r7 root=/dev/sda4