[gentoo-user] Creating an initrd for loading...

2008-03-27 Thread Benjamen R. Meyer
I'm working on a Sparc system (SunBlade 2000 Desktop Server) that needs an initrd image to load (due to having a QLA 2200 SCSI controller); but I am having some trouble with the initrd image. (I had tried the gentoo-sparc list, but it is slow - I'm not getting responses - and I need to finish

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating an initrd for loading...

2008-03-27 Thread Florian Philipp
On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 12:35 -0400, Benjamen R. Meyer wrote: I'm working on a Sparc system (SunBlade 2000 Desktop Server) that needs an initrd image to load (due to having a QLA 2200 SCSI controller); but I am having some trouble with the initrd image. (I had tried the gentoo-sparc list,

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating an initrd for loading...

2008-03-27 Thread Benjamen R. Meyer
Florian Philipp wrote: On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 12:35 -0400, Benjamen R. Meyer wrote: My main question comes down to this: I am using the 'genkernel' package to build install the kernel and initrd image. Both show up in /boot. How much can I rely on genkernel to build a valid initrd image? Try

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating an initrd for loading...

2008-03-27 Thread Florian Philipp
On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 14:31 -0400, Benjamen R. Meyer wrote: Florian Philipp wrote: On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 12:35 -0400, Benjamen R. Meyer wrote: My main question comes down to this: I am using the 'genkernel' package to build install the kernel and initrd image. Both show up in /boot.

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating an initrd for loading...

2008-03-27 Thread Benjamen R. Meyer
Florian Philipp wrote: On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 14:31 -0400, Benjamen R. Meyer wrote: Florian Philipp wrote: On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 12:35 -0400, Benjamen R. Meyer wrote: How can I mount the initrd image to verify it has the modules, etc. and verify it is a valid image? There is a wiki-entry