> On 29 Oct 2005, at 14:21, DR GM SEDDON wrote: > > Dmitri Pogosyan wrote: > >> Not really, you can use initramfs in place of initrd. I have in > >> grub.conf title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.13-r3 UDEV root (hd0,0) kernel / > >> kernel-2.6.13-gentoo-r3 root=/dev/ram0 ramdisk=16384 init=/linuxrc > >> real_root=/dev/sda2 vga=3847 udev initrd /initramfs-2.6.13-gentoo-r3 > >> > >>> Dear list, I have just started using Gentoo and up-to-now am > >>> impressed. I have generated a kernel using 'genkernel' and the > >>> kernel is in /boot. However, I do not have 'initrd' but > >>> 'initramfs'. is this a problem or should I modify grub > >>> appropriately? Gavin. -- [email protected] mailing list > >>> > >> > >> > > I noticed your files are in / not /boot where mine are. Should I > > mv them? > > They're in / only on the boot partition ie they are in the root of > (hd0,0). > > If you are specifying your files as living in /boot on the boot > partition then this could stop your system booting fully. > Exactly, here is my
#ls -l /boot -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1050830 Mar 30 2005 System.map-2.6.11-gentoo-r3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1050580 May 12 22:42 System.map-2.6.11-gentoo-r7 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1214233 Oct 11 00:54 System.map-2.6.13-gentoo-r3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1019913 Mar 5 2005 System.map-2.6.9-gentoo-r14 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1219082 Oct 11 17:54 System.map-2.6.13-gentoo-r3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Jan 11 2005 boot -> . drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Oct 11 17:27 grub -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 884138 Oct 11 17:57 initramfs-2.6.13-gentoo-r3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1044636 Mar 30 2005 initrd-2.6.11-gentoo-r3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1035787 May 12 22:45 initrd-2.6.11-gentoo-r7 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1055316 Mar 5 2005 initrd-2.6.9-gentoo-r14 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1748333 Mar 30 2005 kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1745664 May 12 22:42 kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r7 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1795423 Oct 11 17:54 kernel-2.6.13-gentoo-r3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1663290 Mar 5 2005 kernel-2.6.9-gentoo-r14 drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Jan 11 2005 lost+found -- [email protected] mailing list
