2013/8/27 Francisco Ares <[email protected]> > > 2013/8/27 Francisco Ares <[email protected]> > >> >> 2013/8/27 Francisco Ares <[email protected]> >> >>> >>> 2013/8/27 Francisco Ares <[email protected]> >>> >>>> >>>> 2013/8/27 Michael Hampicke <[email protected]> >>>> >>>>> Am 26.08.2013 20:11, schrieb Francisco Ares: >>>>> > Hi, Michael, thanks for you reply. >>>>> > >>>>> > Please forgive me for not having mentioned grub2-mkconfig and >>>>> > grub2-install. The mentioned grub.cfg was a sample from a working >>>>> system, >>>>> > with legacy grub:0, from which I have recovered parts of the kernel >>>>> command >>>>> > line parameters. >>>>> > >>>>> > After "genkernel" finished to build the kernel, I've issued: >>>>> > >>>>> > grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg >>>>> > grub2-install /dev/sda >>>>> > >>>>> > Sorry for this. >>>>> > Francisco >>>>> On a failed boot, can you reach the rescue system from the initramfs? >>>>> (The message is something like "enter password for rescue or ctrl+d) If >>>>> so, are you able mount your actual root partiton (sda5) manually? >>>>> >>>>> >>>> No, unfortunately. But I am able to use the grub console prior to boot. >>>> >>>> By doing so, I have listed the command about to be used to boot the >>>> first entry in the grub menu, it installs some modules. In regard of file >>>> systems, it only loads a ext2 module, and the root partition is ext4 >>>> formated. >>>> >>>> Although this kernel has ext2, ext3 and ext4 built in (not modules), >>>> can this be a cue? Right now I am preparing to format the root partition >>>> as ext2, just to check this out. >>>> >>>> Thanks again >>>> Francisco >>>> >>>> >>> It didn't work, so I suppose the embedded ext2, ext3 and ext4 in the >>> kernel is not the issue, and might be working. Going to explore the grub >>> console now. >>> >>> Thanks >>> Francisco >>> >> >> >> In the grub console, prior to boot, I was able to mount any partition >> using commands like: >> >> root=(hd0,msdos5) >> >> and then listing the directory tree structure with " ls / " gave the >> expected results. >> >> Francisco >> >> > > I think I might have found it. Although I have selected in the kernel > "menuconfig" to compress the initramfs using gzip and deselected all other > decompression forms. a simple "file initramfs-xxx" told me that it was "XZ > compressed data", so now I am rebuilding the kernel with all decompression > algorithms built in. > > I will (hope) soon post the results. > > Thanks, > Francisco >
It did not work :-( Francisco
