[gentoo-user] genkernel problems

2007-11-11 Thread David Relson
Are the genkernel messages below caused by bash 3.2's new improved conditional expression processing? If so, anybody have a fix? Thanks. David genkernel --menuconfig all /usr/share/genkernel/gen_funcs.sh: line 96: [: : integer expression expected /usr/share/genkernel/gen_funcs.sh: line

[gentoo-user] Feeding new versions of mdadm to genkernel?

2013-02-04 Thread Daniel Frey
Hi all, It seems that the genkernel team did the switcheroo with genkernel. I used to build an initramfs with a newer mdadm by putting: MDADM_VER=3.2.6 in genkernel.conf and copying the related tarball to /var/cache/genkernel. I discovered a bit of a problem, all that's been removed

[gentoo-user] Adding binaries to initramfs with genkernel

2006-09-14 Thread Matthias Teege
Moin, how can I add binaries to the initramfs image with genkernel? Is it possible? Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Genkernel 3.4.24 broken?

2012-02-06 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
I was just compiling my kernel using genkernel, and it seems genkernel 3.4.24 is broken. I have specified INSTALL=YES in /etc/genkernel.conf; the installtion does not happen, instead awk throws an error saying failed to read /var/tmp/genkernel/random decimal number/grub.map no such file

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel and busybox

2012-02-23 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 01/24/2012 10:37 AM, András Csányi wrote: Dear All, I would like to ask what should I do in this case? I would like to make a new kernel using genkernel but there is no 1.8.1 version of busybox and it's not available in portage. To be honest I don't want to do a new kernel by hand

[gentoo-user] genkernel-next will not mount /usr but genkernel will

2014-02-06 Thread covici
Hi folks. I wanted to switch to using genkernel-next instead of genkernel so eventually I could switch to using systemd. However genkernel-next-50 will not mount my /usr file system. I have everything on lvm volumes, except my /boot which is a regular partition. With the regular genkernel /usr

[gentoo-user] how to build xen kernel with genkernel 3.4.10?

2009-06-20 Thread David Shen
Hi, According to gentoo bug #120236, genkernel will not directly support build xen kernel. Does this means I will have to apply the patch in the bug whenever I want to build my xen kernel with genkernel? My system is build on LVM, so I need genkernel to build the start up script to active LVM

Re: [gentoo-user] Genkernel doesn't work when module loadable support is disabled

2006-09-01 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/1/06, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 01 September 2006 15:29, Xavier MOGHRABI wrote: Do you know how can I generate my kernel w/o module support using Genkernel ? You don't. The entire point of genkernel is to make it easy for newbies to compile a kernel, complete

[gentoo-user] Switching from Genkernel to manual build

2007-07-31 Thread Dan Cowsill
Is there any specific process to or problems one might encounter as a result of switching from a Genkernel built kernel over to a manually built kernel? Thanks. -- -·=»Ðŧħ«=·- z���(��j)b� b�

Re: [gentoo-user] Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-25 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 23:50 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 5/25/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 18:20 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: Anyway, the OP is using genkernel (wether it likes/knows it or not)... This doesn't look like genkernel

[gentoo-user] Genkernel + ROOT=/tmp/rootfs ?

2011-05-11 Thread Kfir Lavi
Hi, I'm building a catalyst target for installing with ROOT=/tmp/rootfs Looking on the genkernel man page and I can't find a way to install the kernel to ROOT. Is there a way to do that? Thanks, Kfir

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-07 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Mol writes: I use the proprietary NVidia drivers, so genkernel went away very early in my system's lifetime. Huh? What does genkernel have to do with NVidia drivers? Wonko

[gentoo-user] ipw in kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.22-gentoo-r9

2007-12-15 Thread Richard Watson
Hi - Can anyone give me pointers on how to get ipw2100-firmware working with kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.22-gentoo-r9? It works fine with kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.22-gentoo-r8 where it's compiled in the kernel but the same set-up fails in kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.22-gentoo-r9. When I run emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Genkernel 3.4.24 broken?

2012-02-23 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 02/06/2012 02:20 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: I was just compiling my kernel using genkernel, and it seems genkernel 3.4.24 is broken. I have specified INSTALL=YES in /etc/genkernel.conf; the installtion does not happen, instead awk throws an error saying failed to read /var/tmp/genkernel

Re: [gentoo-user] suspend/hibernate and genkernel.

2012-03-14 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 03/14/2012 04:49 AM, William Kenworthy wrote: According to the docs I have found you need to patch genkernel to run /sbin/resume - it was a longstanding argument between two now retired devs with the result that genkernel wont (ever) support hibernation. I dont know from reading the bugs

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel bug?

2014-07-15 Thread Jc García
2014-07-15 9:38 GMT-06:00 Gmail serverp...@gmail.com: My /usr partition in on the / partition. I just use initrd, i've compiled kernel with genkernel. I'm trying to look row for row if there's some diff. Are you using genkernel also to generate a the initramfs? for booting systemd

[gentoo-user] genkernel all

2020-11-25 Thread thelma
I compiled "genkernel all" instead of looking for the correct entry to boot my M.2 drive. Not I compiled nvidia-drivers and got a message: * Messages for package x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-455.28-r1: * CONFIG_I2C_NVIDIA_GPU: should not be set. But it is. * Please check to

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does genkernel mess about with mounts, when make install doesn't?

2021-11-12 Thread Jack
On 2021.11.12 18:34, Wol wrote: I've just been swearing blue murder because when I run "make install" it puts the kernel in /boot. But when I run genkernel it mounts a completely different boot, sticks the initramfs in there, and then unmounts it. Which means when grub-mkco

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

2007-08-30 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:05:47 -0300 Norberto Bensa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know - but I know that genkernel's config sucks. Why? I can make menuconfig and then: sudo genkernel --oldconfig --no-clean all Well, I make it a point to not use genkernel, but do you think

Re: [gentoo-user] udev recent genkernel + gentoo-sources

2005-07-13 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: I recently updated portage tree kernel and using usual genkernel --menuconfig --save-config all Have you tried building a kernel manually (i.e. without using genkernel)? -- Aj. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] udev recent genkernel + gentoo-sources

2005-07-13 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: Nope... might try it as well but my understanding that all genkernel does is automates compilation/installation and makes sure options for devfs or udev are on (depending on --[no]udev --[no]devfs flags). True, but a lot of people have had

RE: [gentoo-user] Boot stalls after install of 2005.1

2005-08-23 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Marcel Romijn wrote: Yes, I used everything as default as possible. I used 'genkernel' to build my kernel with the default configuration. Many people have problems when uysing genkernel to build their kernels, so I will repeat my earlier advice: build the kernel by hand

[gentoo-user] genkernel, all modules

2010-11-12 Thread fajfusio
Hi I found that genkernel does not build all available modules. 2 devices have not been detected by a kernel while they were detected with manually configured kernel. How can I force genkernel to build all available modules ? thanks for help

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-07 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Michael Mol writes: I use the proprietary NVidia drivers, so genkernel went away very early in my system's lifetime. Huh? What does genkernel have to do with NVidia drivers? genkernel included nouvou, which conflicted

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-3.2.0-r1 and genkernel

2012-01-10 Thread Andrea Perotti
Il 06/01/2012 10:51, András Csányi ha scritto: under /boot directory. Did I missed something? Is there anything new in genkernel? Should I report it? Check /etc/genkernel/genkernel.conf maybe is commented the option that install it into /boot . hth A.

Re: [gentoo-user] The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way!

2012-03-18 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-03-17 8:54 AM, Eliezer Croitoru elie...@ngtech.co.il wrote: genkernel is pretty simple to use if you ask me. just emerege genkernel Thanks, but... what part of I have never used genkernel, and have no desire to... did you not understand?

Re: [gentoo-user] The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way!

2012-03-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 17 March 2012 12:54:53 Eliezer Croitoru wrote: genkernel is pretty simple to use if you ask me. just emerege genkernel and then use genkerenl --menuconfig all it will do everything for you the same as in a regular kernel compiling. you have instructions on how to use

Re: [gentoo-user] Feeding new versions of mdadm to genkernel?

2013-02-04 Thread William Kenworthy
On 05/02/13 06:54, Daniel Frey wrote: Hi all, It seems that the genkernel team did the switcheroo with genkernel. I used to build an initramfs with a newer mdadm by putting: MDADM_VER=3.2.6 in genkernel.conf and copying the related tarball to /var/cache/genkernel. I discovered a bit

[gentoo-user] Re: Questions on attempt at first install.

2020-12-04 Thread Diagon
One more: Using genkernel, is there a way to make sure a module is included in the initramfs? /D > Could someone clarify for me what `genkernel --menuconfig` is doing? > > Is it equivalent to a manual kernel config, only saving me the `make` &&

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: genkernel-next will not mount /usr but genkernel will

2014-03-02 Thread covici
Greg Surbey gregsur...@hotmail.com wrote: covici at ccs.covici.com writes: Hi folks. I wanted to switch to using genkernel-next instead of genkernel so eventually I could switch to using systemd. However genkernel-next-50 will not mount my /usr file system. I have everything

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade question: is it adviseable?

2009-06-03 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 03 June 2009 18:39:56 Dale wrote: Why not copy the config from the old kernel over and run make oldconfig? May need to do some cleaning after genkernel tho. That's the correct way :-) But the OP asked if there was some magic way to get genkernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Genkernel doesn't work when module loadable support is disabled

2006-09-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 01 September 2006 15:29, Xavier MOGHRABI wrote: Dear all, I'm trying to generate a kernel without module. So I've disabled Enable loadable module support option with genkernel. Genkernel compiles well the bzimage but fails after with the message ERROR: Failed to compile

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

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel and busybox

2012-02-23 Thread András Csányi
On 23 February 2012 21:16, Sebastian Pipping sp...@gentoo.org wrote: On 01/24/2012 10:37 AM, András Csányi wrote: Dear All, I would like to ask what should I do in this case? I would like to make a new kernel using genkernel but there is no 1.8.1 version of busybox and it's not available

[gentoo-user] Re: genkernel-next will not mount /usr but genkernel will

2014-03-02 Thread Greg Surbey
covici at ccs.covici.com writes: Hi folks. I wanted to switch to using genkernel-next instead of genkernel so eventually I could switch to using systemd. However genkernel-next-50 will not mount my /usr file system. I have everything on lvm volumes, except my /boot which is a regular

Re: [gentoo-user] Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-25 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/25/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 18:20 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: Anyway, the OP is using genkernel (wether it likes/knows it or not)... This doesn't look like genkernel: It doesn't have to look, he used the Gentoo installer, and so

Re: [gentoo-user] udev recent genkernel + gentoo-sources

2005-07-13 Thread Rumen Yotov
Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: On July 13, 2005 11:43 am, A. Khattri wrote: On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: I recently updated portage tree kernel and using usual genkernel --menuconfig --save-config all Have you tried building a kernel manually (i.e. without using

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 well

Re: [gentoo-user] suspend/hibernate and genkernel.

2012-03-14 Thread William Kenworthy
On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 14:27 +0100, Sebastian Pipping wrote: On 03/14/2012 04:49 AM, William Kenworthy wrote: According to the docs I have found you need to patch genkernel to run /sbin/resume - it was a longstanding argument between two now retired devs with the result that genkernel wont

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

2007-08-31 Thread Steen Eugen Poulsen
Volker Armin Hemmann skrev: because I have seen more than one non-booting totally f* up kernel created by genkernel. I won't touch it ever again. If something sucked in the past, the change is great that it sucks again in the future. Plus it doesn't really make things easier, does

[gentoo-user] Re: 7. Configuring the Kernel

2007-11-17 Thread Thufir
On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 20:54:41 +, Mick wrote: Regarding the genkernel (which I have never used) it makes use of a initrd to bring up the necessary modules at boot up (before the kernel has been loaded). This lead me to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml? part=1chap=10

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash starting after local and not during boot

2006-02-17 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi Uwe, Try: genkernel --gensplash=emergence --gensplash-res=1024x768 initrd genkernel puts all those nifty little things in your initrd. You could add --menuconfig if you want to check your kernel options. Look up the exact name of the generated initrd in /boot and adjust your grub entry

Re: [gentoo-user] updates

2005-10-30 Thread Qian Qiao
On 10/30/05, John Dangler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roy~ Thanks for the reply. I actually used genkernel to make the kernel. I used 'genkernel all'. That's why I'm a little confused as to why this didn't take effect. The previous kernel was also built with genkernel and didn't have any

[gentoo-user] Bit puzzled over Kernel Upgrade with Genkernel - No Sound or Wireless Connectivity

2005-11-21 Thread Richard Watson
Hi - I just upgraded my kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r10 to kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.14-gentoo-r2. So far I have no sound (Alsa) or wireless connectivity (ipw2100). Do I need to re-emerge the relevant packages? And if I do will this remove the functionality from the old kernel. I can boot

[gentoo-user] genkernel examples supporting RAID[4,5,6,10,...]?

2012-09-05 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm sort of glazing over falling asleep trying to understand the Gentoo genkernel Wiki page. This is not critical time-wise. I'm just curious about what genkernel could do in terms of creating a kernel an initramfs for a root partition on RAID 1 and metadata 0.9. I've done

[gentoo-user] genkernel iwlwifi WiFi driver

2017-07-15 Thread Radoje Stojisic
Hello everyone, I've installed Gentoo on my ThinkPad T460p couple of times. For some reason I can't get the WiFi working. I did the installation with SystemRescueCD because I needed working WiFi for the install. So here comes the question: I've installed the Genkernel. Does Genkernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Why has genkernel initramfs changed behaviour!?

2021-11-17 Thread Jack
On 2021.11.17 18:15, Wol wrote: Just filed bug 824282. In the past, I've always done "make kernel, make kernel_modules, make install, make modules_install, genkernel initramfs ...". This worked fine, and I then ran grub-mkconfig, sorted out grub.cfg, and all was well. My ne

[gentoo-user] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

2007-08-30 Thread Arnau Bria
Hi, I used genkernel for compiling kernel in my home server. Yesterday I wanted to compile a new kernel, but this time by hand, so I did: 1.-) moved config.gz to .config in new /usr/src/linux link 2.-) make oldconfig 3.-) make all make modules_install 4.-) mkinitrd initrm.2.6.21 2.6.21-gentoo-r4

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

2007-08-31 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 31. August 2007, Ryan Sims wrote: On 8/31/07, Steen Eugen Poulsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann skrev: because I have seen more than one non-booting totally f* up kernel created by genkernel. I won't touch it ever again. If something sucked in the past

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade question: is it adviseable?

2009-06-03 Thread Rumen Yotov
On (03/06/09 15:40) Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 03 June 2009 18:39:56 Dale wrote: Why not copy the config from the old kernel over and run make oldconfig? May need to do some cleaning after genkernel tho. That's the correct way :-) But the OP asked

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash starting after local and not during boot

2006-02-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 17 February 2006 13:10, Marco Calviani wrote: Hi Uwe, Try: genkernel --gensplash=emergence --gensplash-res=1024x768 initrd genkernel puts all those nifty little things in your initrd. You could add --menuconfig if you want to check your kernel options. Look up the exact name

Re: [gentoo-user] Is anyone using initramfs on Gentoo?

2006-04-30 Thread John Jolet
On Sunday 30 April 2006 16:30, Maurice E Johnson wrote: I do hope you have read the appropriate documentation. In the Gentoo world, we have a thing called genkernel. Genkernel receives a lot of bad publicity sometimes but it realy is a nice tool if you graduate from the simple command line

Re: [gentoo-user] Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-25 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 18:20 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: Anyway, the OP is using genkernel (wether it likes/knows it or not)... This doesn't look like genkernel: I loaded the configuration file from my old kernel and then just make make install to use genkernel, you have to call

Re: [gentoo-user] Now Know Why Portage Is So Slow

2006-05-26 Thread Lord Sauron
On 5/25/06, Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/25/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 18:20 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: Anyway, the OP is using genkernel (wether it likes/knows it or not)... This doesn't look like genkernel: It doesn't have

Re: [gentoo-user] udev recent genkernel + gentoo-sources

2005-07-13 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On July 13, 2005 11:43 am, A. Khattri wrote: On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: I recently updated portage tree kernel and using usual genkernel --menuconfig --save-config all Have you tried building a kernel manually (i.e. without using genkernel)? Nope... might try

[gentoo-user] Problem using genkernel

2005-07-25 Thread Waldemar Tribus
Hallo all, i am trying to migrate from 2.4 to 2.6. i wasn't using genkernel with 2.4, now i want to start use it. I am calling genkernel like genkernel --menuconfig --bootloader=grub all years later it says: * Adding kernel to /boot/grub/grub.conf... but all i see is that my old grub.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem using genkernel

2005-07-26 Thread Waldemar Tribus
Hello Zac Medico, Once you wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Problem using genkernel: I've never thought to use the --bootloader=grub option because I've always want wanted to edit grub.conf myself. I think i will go this way too :) Are there any clues in /var/log/genkernel.log? No just

Re: [gentoo-user] Re-post:How to get jfs root partition to properly fsck on power failure?

2005-08-08 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Aaron Nichols wrote: I was going to try the non-genkernel approach and see if that worked any differently, as the grub configuration is quite different. I have examples of other distributions which work fine using jfs in this situation, but those do not use udev and none

[gentoo-user] multiple kernels in grub

2005-08-11 Thread John Dangler
I manually configured a kernel during the install and went back afterward and added a genkernel version since I was having a few problems during boot (resolution, network, etc). In /boot, I have both linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 and kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r6. In /boot/grub

Re: [gentoo-user] boot slave drive

2006-08-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/29/06, Thufir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 28 title Gentoo 29 map (hd0) (hd1) 30 map (hd1) (hd0) 31 root (hd1,1) 32 chainloader +1 33 kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-07 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Michael Mol writes: I use the proprietary NVidia drivers, so genkernel went away very early in my system's lifetime. Huh? What does genkernel have

[gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-3.2.0-r1 and genkernel

2012-01-06 Thread András Csányi
Dear All, I updated my system and there is a new gentoo-sources version 3.2.0-gentoo-r1. I reconfigured my system to use this kernel and I compiled the kernel with genkernel. But there is no compiled file under /boot directory. Did I missed something? Is there anything new in genkernel? Should I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ERROR: Cannot locate kernel binary

2012-01-06 Thread .
I'm assuming it's a genkernel bug. I've masked the latest ~arch version and it worked.

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-3.2.0-r1 and genkernel

2012-01-10 Thread András Csányi
On 10 January 2012 10:12, Andrea Perotti apero...@cutaway.it wrote: Il 06/01/2012 10:51, András Csányi ha scritto: under /boot directory. Did I missed something? Is there anything new in genkernel? Should I report it? Check /etc/genkernel/genkernel.conf maybe is commented the option

Re: [gentoo-user] difficulties with lvm2+systemd+grub2

2014-11-11 Thread Jc García
2014-11-11 14:56 GMT-06:00 Michael Mair-Keimberger m.mairkeimber...@gmail.com: This lead me to my second question. At the wiki, the only way to create an initramfs for systemd was with genkernel (genkernel --udev --lvm). While the command itself is pretty useless (it's `genkernel --udev --lvm

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel all

2020-11-25 Thread thelma
On 11/25/2020 08:23 AM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > I compiled "genkernel all" instead of looking for the correct entry to > boot my M.2 drive. > > Not I compiled nvidia-drivers and got a message: > > * Messages for package x11-driv

[gentoo-user] Questions on attempt at first install.

2020-12-04 Thread Diagon
Could someone clarify for me what `genkernel --menuconfig` is doing? Is it equivalent to a manual kernel config, only saving me the `make` && `make install`? Or is it setting what `genkernel all` would set, and letting you modify that? Do I run it as `genkernel --menuco

Re: [gentoo-user] Why has genkernel initramfs changed behaviour!?

2021-11-18 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, November 18, 2021 12:15:30 AM CET Wol wrote: > Just filed bug 824282. > > In the past, I've always done "make kernel, make kernel_modules, make > install, make modules_install, genkernel initramfs ...". > > This worked fine, and I then ran grub-m

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel initramfs and grub2-mkconfig

2012-06-04 Thread Michael Hampicke
at all. I'm using genkernel and want to use my generated initramfs, but everytime grub2-mkconfig gets called it sets the kernel parameter root= to my root partition and then the initramfs won't get used. I think manually editing /boot/grub2/grub.cfg and deleting the root= parameter and setting

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 vanilla

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

2007-08-30 Thread Ryan Sims
On 8/30/07, Arnau Bria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I used genkernel for compiling kernel in my home server. Yesterday I wanted to compile a new kernel, but this time by hand, so I did: 1.-) moved config.gz to .config in new /usr/src/linux link 2.-) make oldconfig 3.-) make all make

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

2007-08-30 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Donnerstag 30 August 2007 20:16:02 schrieb Ryan Sims: On 8/30/07, Arnau Bria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I used genkernel for compiling kernel in my home server. Yesterday I wanted to compile a new kernel, but this time by hand, so I did: 1.-) moved config.gz to .config in new

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

2007-08-30 Thread Ryan Sims
On 8/30/07, Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Donnerstag 30 August 2007 20:16:02 schrieb Ryan Sims: On 8/30/07, Arnau Bria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I used genkernel for compiling kernel in my home server. Yesterday I wanted to compile a new kernel, but this time

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

2007-08-30 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I don't know - but I know that genkernel's config sucks. Why? I can make menuconfig and then: sudo genkernel --oldconfig --no-clean all This message was sent using IMP

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

2007-08-30 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Well, I make it a point to not use genkernel, but do you think it's slower? slower what? in what sense? This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

2007-08-31 Thread Ryan Sims
On 8/31/07, Arnau Bria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Really, I like to read people's opinion about genkernel, but no one has tried to answer my question yet. In my first reply, I suggested looking at a diff between your config and genkernel's config. How did that turn out? -- Ryan W Sims

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

2007-08-31 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 31. August 2007, Steen Eugen Poulsen wrote: And to the lies: Lie: because I have seen more than one non-booting totally f* up kernel created by genkernel. I won't touch it ever again. If something sucked in the past, the change is great that it sucks again in the future. Plus

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie livecd installation dual boot problems

2006-03-09 Thread Sarpy Sam
I am assuming the kernel is built with JFS support compiled in and not as a module. I am not a genkernel user but couldn't you boot the machine like this, root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/hda2 This will test if it's a kernel problem or a boot splash

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash problem !!!

2005-07-17 Thread Yuan MEI
I am using splashutils 1.1.9.7 and livecd-2005.1, and genkernel 3.2.5 works very well with all the stuff. So I think you can find the solution inside the genkernel scripts. -- Yuan MEI -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] newbie installing with genkernel, but no initrd

2005-08-11 Thread Assaf Urieli
-by-step. I decided to use the genkernel script to configure compile the kernel (from http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2005.1/handbook-x86.xml?part=1chap=7 - section 7.d. Alternative: Using genkernel) cause I got a bit overwhelmed with the options when I tried the manual configuration

[gentoo-user] I'm a genkernel user ... Is it OK to manually edit /usr/src/linux/.config with nano?

2006-08-13 Thread Richard Watson
Hi - I'm a genkernel user ... Is it OK to manually edit /usr/src/linux/.config with nano? It's quicker than going through he --menuconfig menu sets at times. Thanks, Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] I'm a genkernel user ... Is it OK to manually edit /usr/src/linux/.config with nano?

2006-08-13 Thread Richard Watson
Yes. Make sure next time you run genkernel on that kernel source you specify --no-clean and --no-mrproper, or copy the .config to /etc/kernels/kernel-config-version, otherwise it will wipe out your changes. p.s. Don't reply to an old mail just to keep the To:. Thanks Mike -- gentoo

[gentoo-user] Re: Genkernel + ROOT=/tmp/rootfs ?

2011-05-16 Thread Kfir Lavi
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Kfir Lavi lavi.k...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm building a catalyst target for installing with ROOT=/tmp/rootfs Looking on the genkernel man page and I can't find a way to install the kernel to ROOT. Is there a way to do that? Thanks, Kfir Anyone?

[gentoo-user] Getting genkernel to use newer dmraid

2011-07-11 Thread Daniel Frey
Hi all, I've been trying to get genkernel to use a newer version of dmraid. For some reason, genkernel is using a build from 2006 (!) I've tried an ubuntu livecd which uses a build that's available in portage that works with my fakeraid. All this to try to dual-boot using a raid 1+0. I've

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid

2012-01-04 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 22:21 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: On 01/03/2012 08:57 PM, Jeff Cranmer wrote: device-mapper: table: 253:0: raid45: unknown target type Maybe a dumb question, but is the raid45 module enabled in your kernel config? genkernel --dmraid all Not sure how to check those

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: genkernel 3.3.8 fails to build initramfs

2012-07-04 Thread Kenny Cheng
Hi, It should be https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=419511 Which fixed in version =sys-kernel/genkernel-3.4.35 -- Regards, Kenny Cheng On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 2:20 AM, Sebastian Pipping sp...@gentoo.org wrote: Hello David, it seems that this bug has been reported before: https

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't update pax-utils to 0.5 because of genkernel block.

2013-04-12 Thread Stroller
On 12 April 2013, at 06:36, Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote: ... * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be * installed at the same time on the same system. (sys-kernel/genkernel-3.4.45::gentoo, installed) pulled in by sys-kernel/genkernel required by @selected (app

Re: [gentoo-user] dracut vs. genkernel

2013-06-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 12.06.2013 19:50, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: I will have to adapt it a bit to be able to use it with linux - /usr/src/linux-git I hacked something ... can't share right now as I shamelessly used function from genkernel to read in the kernel version ;-) S

[gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade from 4.1.12 to 4.4.6 hangs without writing logs.

2016-04-27 Thread Hans
Tried to upgrade the kernels of my desktop and notebook fron kernel 4.1.12 upgrade to 4.4.6. Both systems freeze during booting with 4.4.6. No dmsg, No messages logs. Previous kernel upgrades always worked smooth as silk. Using: OpenRC, eudev, Xfce, Desktop configration: Genkernel with /etc

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade from 4.1.12 to 4.4.6 hangs without writing logs.

2016-04-27 Thread J. Roeleveld
ays worked >smooth >as silk. > >Using: OpenRC, eudev, Xfce, > >Desktop configration: >Genkernel with /etc/genkernel.conf additional options: >MENUCONFIG="yes" >MAKEOPTS="-j5" >MDADM="yes" >MDADM_CONFIG="/etc/mdadm.conf" >DISKLABEL=

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about genkernel's default kernel config

2016-08-25 Thread thegeezer
On 2016-08-15 11:04, Azamat Hackimov wrote: Well, at least for me it's much easier just type genkernel --oldconfig=/etc/kernels/ been a bit silent on this list for the last year or so with personal life, come back and immediately find a nugget of info i had been doing make oldconfig

[gentoo-user] Why has genkernel initramfs changed behaviour!?

2021-11-17 Thread Wol
Just filed bug 824282. In the past, I've always done "make kernel, make kernel_modules, make install, make modules_install, genkernel initramfs ...". This worked fine, and I then ran grub-mkconfig, sorted out grub.cfg, and all was well. My new setup, I have a /boot WHICH I WANT T

[gentoo-user] Why does genkernel mess about with mounts, when make install doesn't?

2021-11-12 Thread Wol
I've just been swearing blue murder because when I run "make install" it puts the kernel in /boot. But when I run genkernel it mounts a completely different boot, sticks the initramfs in there, and then unmounts it. Which means when grub-mkconfig comes along, there's no initra

Re: [gentoo-user] The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way!

2012-03-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 15:39:59 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Eliezer Croitoru wrote: On 18/03/2012 11:52, Dale wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday 17 March 2012 12:54:53 Eliezer Croitoru wrote: genkernel is pretty simple to use if you ask me. just emerege genkernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Why has genkernel initramfs changed behaviour!?

2021-11-17 Thread William Kenworthy
On 18/11/21 7:24 am, Jack wrote: > On 2021.11.17 18:15, Wol wrote: >> Just filed bug 824282. >> >> In the past, I've always done "make kernel, make kernel_modules, make >> install, make modules_install, genkernel initramfs ...". >> >> This work

[gentoo-user] Re: genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

2007-09-01 Thread Marc Blumentritt
Arnau Bria schrieb: 4.-) mkinitrd initrm.2.6.21 2.6.21-gentoo-r4 5.-) Edited menu.lst (just copied genkernel entry and modified to my new bzimage and initram files) but my new kernel did not start, and gave me a kernel panic... So I wonder what differences could be between my compilation

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade question: is it adviseable?

2009-06-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
kernel (/proc/config.gz) if the running kernel supports it. But I could be may off course here too. Why not copy the config from the old kernel over and run make oldconfig? May need to do some cleaning after genkernel tho. That's the correct way :-) But the OP asked if there was some magic

Re: [gentoo-user] My Continuing ALSA Woes

2005-10-19 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 22:21:15 -0500 Michael Sullivan wrote: Back up .config, make mrproper, restore .config, make menuconfig and exit, choosing yes to save kernel config. then make the kernel in the usual manner. Can this be done with genkernel? I've always used genkernel

[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

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem using genkernel

2005-07-25 Thread Zac Medico
Waldemar Tribus wrote: Hallo all, i am trying to migrate from 2.4 to 2.6. i wasn't using genkernel with 2.4, now i want to start use it. I am calling genkernel like genkernel --menuconfig --bootloader=grub all years later it says: * Adding kernel to /boot/grub/grub.conf... but all i see

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