Actually, it turns out this is an issue between Grub, and the CCISS driver when compiled for a system with devfs. I discussed it a bit in IRC, and Gentoo developers quickly became involved.
Seemant logged in remotely via a Compaq Remote Insight Card, and went through a complete install with me, so that he knew *I* wasn't just a moron. Thankfully, I wasn't. :) Even Daniel Robbins was on the machine yesterday (remotely) to confirm it as a bug, and my understanding from Seemant is that Gentoo is working with Compaq to resolve the issue in the driver. Late on Friday, one of Gentoo's kernel developers recommended that we use lilo for now. That hasn't been 100% installed, but it should be done within a few minuites when I get into the office next. Alternately, there is a lower end RAID card built onto the motherboard, and I'll try putting the boot partition there. It'll use a different driver, and hopefully, that will eliminate the problem. Kev. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Emin Kondapalli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CLUG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 11:02 PM Subject: (clug-talk) initrd > On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 20:23, HJ Hornbeck wrote: > > > Can anyone point me to "the frustrated moron's guide to building an > > > initrd"? > > > > Usually, you don't build the image yourself. A program called > > "mkinitrd" builds it for you, in the process automatically handling > > dependency issues, writing a startup script, and so on. Rather > > confusingly, there are two versions of the program out there, one for > > Red Hat and one for Debian: > > > > > Look at the man page, as well as at > http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/Compiling_Kernels/Updating_a_Kernel.html > Hope this helps. > -- > - Emin Kondapalli > Registered Linux User: 273273 > CLUG Membership: 02.L030.05 > > >
