Em 19/08/2011 07:09, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> escreveu:
On Friday 19 Aug 2011 03:27:23 Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:59 AM, fra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi, guys
> >
> > It is a shame, I know, but after several years using Gentoo, it is the
> > first time I try to build a kernel without "genkernel".
> >
> > And now I can't boot to that new kernel, it does not find (and really
do
> > not have a) /dev/sda* root partition ("real-root"); during the boot it
> > stops, complaining about that, gives me the option to get a shell,
from
> > which I am able to see that there is no /dev/sda* .
> >
> > I have included everything SATA, so it looks like that is not a kernel
> > problem, but a initramfs issue, I guess.
> >
> > What am I missing?
> >
> > Thanks a lot
> > Francisco
> >
> > PS: my boot partition is sda2, sda3 is a swap partition, and
everything
> > else is in sda4. sda1 is not used (up to now) and this is my
grub.conf :
> >
> > title Gentoo Linux 2.6.39-gentoo-r3
> > root (hd0,1)
> > kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.39-gentoo-r3 ro
root=/dev/ram0
> > init=/linuxrc real_root=/dev/sda4 vga=0x318 video=uvesafb:1024x768-32
> > nodevfs udev devfs=nomount quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1
> > initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.39-gentoo-r3
>
> Maybe I'm missing the obvious here but have you taken a copy of
> whatever config file was used/generated by genkernel and used that as
> a jumping off point for building your own kernel. kernel's a kernel's
> a kernel. What it is capable of doing is in the .config file. If
> genkernel doesn't give you a .config file - I've never used genkernel
> so I don't know what it does - then assuming you have the feature
> turned on you can get the running config using zcat /proc/config.gz.
> Save that to a new .config file, put it in the kernel source directory
> and you should be good to go.
>
> You can also use zcat /proc/config.gz on the install CD kernel if yuo
> boot from that. Save it to a disk and use it as the basis for creating
> your own config.
If you no longer use genkernel it is likely that you do not need an
initram.
Build chipset and fs modules into the kernel. Other drivers you can
choose if
you want to build as modules.
--
Regards,
Mick
I the case I don't need a initram, I guess that the grub line for parameter
passing to the kernel would be empty. Am I wrong?
I was just looking on how to build my own initram. What is it supposed to
do anyway?
Thanks
Francisco
