Re: [gentoo-user] Re: no matter what kernel version I compile, It says it's 2.6.19-r4 - SOLVED
Harm Geerts wrote: On Tuesday 06 February 2007, Gabriel Rossetti wrote: Hello, I emerge a kernel, let's say gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r5, I create the linux link, then cd inside and compile/install it. I reboot and I get lots of errors from modules, I do a uname -a and notice that it still says 2.6.19-r4, i then check in the /boot directory, and the links are correct, then I check my grub.conf and it's correct, I then tried gentoo-sources-2.6.20, still the same thing. Does anyone have any ideas? Do you have a seperate /boot partition and forgot to mount it before installing the kernel? Harm! That's it, I never did that (not automaount /boot), but I decided to this time, so like you said, my /boot was not mounted so everything was right, but at the same time it wasn'tThat was a stupid mistake on my part. Thanks to all those that answered and sorry for bothering you all with this... Gabriel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: no matter what kernel version I compile, It says it's 2.6.19-r4 - SOLVED
Gabriel Rossetti wrote: Harm Geerts wrote: On Tuesday 06 February 2007, Gabriel Rossetti wrote: Hello, I emerge a kernel, let's say gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r5, I create the linux link, then cd inside and compile/install it. I reboot and I get lots of errors from modules, I do a uname -a and notice that it still says 2.6.19-r4, i then check in the /boot directory, and the links are correct, then I check my grub.conf and it's correct, I then tried gentoo-sources-2.6.20, still the same thing. Does anyone have any ideas? Do you have a seperate /boot partition and forgot to mount it before installing the kernel? Harm! That's it, I never did that (not automaount /boot), but I decided to this time, so like you said, my /boot was not mounted so everything was right, but at the same time it wasn'tThat was a stupid mistake on my part. Thanks to all those that answered and sorry for bothering you all with this... Gabriel I feel like a newbie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: no matter what kernel version I compile, It says it's 2.6.19-r4 - SOLVED
On Tuesday 06 February 2007, Gabriel Rossetti wrote: That's it, I never did that (not automaount /boot), but I decided to this time, so like you said, my /boot was not mounted so everything was right, but at the same time it wasn'tThat was a stupid mistake on my part. Thanks to all those that answered and sorry for bothering you all with this... Gabriel I think we've all made that mistake at some point! No need to apologize, it's something to learn from. At least now when the next newbie makes the same mistake you are in a position to help them in return :-) alan -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: no matter what kernel version I compile, It says it's 2.6.19-r4 - SOLVED
On 07/02/07, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 06 February 2007, Gabriel Rossetti wrote: That's it, I never did that (not automaount /boot), but I decided to this time, so like you said, my /boot was not mounted so everything was right, but at the same time it wasn'tThat was a stupid mistake on my part. Thanks to all those that answered and sorry for bothering you all with this... Gabriel I think we've all made that mistake at some point! No need to apologize, it's something to learn from. At least now when the next newbie makes the same mistake you are in a position to help them in return :-) Just curious... but does genkernel automatically mount /boot? I use genkernel, and have never had any issues, but I'm pretty sure that I've always mounted /boot before running the genkernel command. Anyone know? (Guess I could see for myself, but I'm not in front of my Linux box at the moment) ...Ric -- Ric de France Ph: +61412945554 (international) or 0412945554 (Australia) == Do you, uh... Gentoo? Gent-hooo!! == == http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml == -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: no matter what kernel version I compile, It says it's 2.6.19-r4 - SOLVED
On 2/6/07, Ric de France [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 07/02/07, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 06 February 2007, Gabriel Rossetti wrote: That's it, I never did that (not automaount /boot), but I decided to this time, so like you said, my /boot was not mounted so everything was right, but at the same time it wasn'tThat was a stupid mistake on my part. Thanks to all those that answered and sorry for bothering you all with this... Gabriel I think we've all made that mistake at some point! No need to apologize, it's something to learn from. At least now when the next newbie makes the same mistake you are in a position to help them in return :-) Just curious... but does genkernel automatically mount /boot? I use genkernel, and have never had any issues, but I'm pretty sure that I've always mounted /boot before running the genkernel command. Yes, genkernel mounts /boot right after launched... -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCM/IT/P/O d-? s:- a? C++$ UBLA++ P+ L++ E--- W+++$ N o+ K- w O M- V- PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: no matter what kernel version I compile, It says it's 2.6.19-r4 - SOLVED
Gabriel Rossetti wrote: I feel like a newbie -- So do I, they are very tasty! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: no matter what kernel version I compile, It says it's 2.6.19-r4 - SOLVED
On Wednesday 07 February 2007, Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 2/6/07, Ric de France [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 07/02/07, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 06 February 2007, Gabriel Rossetti wrote: That's it, I never did that (not automaount /boot), but I decided to this time, so like you said, my /boot was not mounted so everything was right, but at the same time it wasn'tThat was a stupid mistake on my part. Thanks to all those that answered and sorry for bothering you all with this... Gabriel I think we've all made that mistake at some point! No need to apologize, it's something to learn from. At least now when the next newbie makes the same mistake you are in a position to help them in return :-) Just curious... but does genkernel automatically mount /boot? I use genkernel, and have never had any issues, but I'm pretty sure that I've always mounted /boot before running the genkernel command. Yes, genkernel mounts /boot right after launched... genkernel *conditionally* mounts /boot if /etc/genkernel.conf contains MOUNTBOOT=yes It can be unset with the result that /boot will not be mounted automatically alan -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
