> -----Original Message----- > From: Heschi Kreinick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 8:24 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Create a new grub only partition? Looking for > ideas. > > > You won't be able to chroot from tomsrtbt. When I needed to do a > floppy-based install, I had to make my own 2.4.20 kernel and rebuild the > disk image, which isn't terribly hard, but requires a functional installed > Linux. > See: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=27951 > for other alternatives. > -Heschi
Hi Heschi, According to Tom, this problem with tomsrtbt is apparently a Gentoo generated problem and not something specific to his disk. Here's a response I got from him yesterday: <SNIP> The problem with this is not really that the kernel is too old, feature wise, it is that the Gentoo C-library was compiled with options that are checking the kernel version and requiring a specific numbered version or higher. It is on my to-do list to jimmy the kernel to fake out the given version, maybe make it identify itself as 99.99.999 or similar. Of course, you can already fairly easily replace the kernel yourself- the problem is that newer kernels are larger, and it is a silly tradeoff to do just for the version number reported. -Tom <SNIP> I presume this is true, but certainly don't know for sure, and I was able to solve my problems with the Gentoo installation CD which was a much better solution in my case. Cheers, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
