Works now! This will be quite usefull for me, as I have about 20 Linux pc's to manage. They are all PIII based, but all with different hardware.
Kernel upgrades will be much easier now! THX all, keep up the splendid work. Gentoo rocks! On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 21:32, Karl Huysmans wrote: > Hi all, > > Honestly, I still can't figure out how initrd is created by genkernel. I > got a 3ware with 4 45 Gig disks connected (RAID 10). My entire system is > on this RAID. > > Tried to build a kernel (2.4.22) with genkernel (1.7), 3ware as module. > During boot, initrd seems to load (detecting storage, detecting usb or > something like that) but the 3ware modules are not loaded, kernel panics > because it doesn't find /root. > > Solved the problem by re-compiling the kernel (genkernel --config) with > 3ware built-in, no problems. > > But I would like to know how genkernel/initrd works. I remember from the > old RedHat days that their mkinitrd script looks in /etc/modules.config > and creates initrd with the modules found there. How exactly does this > work in Gentoo? Is there a file to edit? Should something be done in > modules.autoload? Should I edit /etc/kernels/? Ore is this just not > working yet ... > > THX -- Karl Huysmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
