Re: [gentoo-user] Is anyone using initramfs on Gentoo?

2006-04-30 Thread Norberto Bensa
Norberto Bensa wrote: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block (1,0) Bug in mkinitd. It uses -c (old ascii format) and kernel seems to expect newc (srv4) Everything is working now. Thanks everyone! Regards, Norberto pgpjI6fMsynsj.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Is anyone using initramfs on Gentoo?

2006-04-30 Thread Maurice E Johnson
I do hope you have read the appropriate documentation. In the Gentoo world, we have a thing called genkernel. Genkernel receives a lot of bad publicity sometimes but it realy is a nice tool if you graduate from the simple command line. Under genkernel you have several options for building

Re: [gentoo-user] Is anyone using initramfs on Gentoo?

2006-04-30 Thread John Jolet
On Sunday 30 April 2006 16:30, Maurice E Johnson wrote: I do hope you have read the appropriate documentation. In the Gentoo world, we have a thing called genkernel. Genkernel receives a lot of bad publicity sometimes but it realy is a nice tool if you graduate from the simple command line.

Re: [gentoo-user] Is anyone using initramfs on Gentoo?

2006-04-30 Thread Norberto Bensa
John Jolet wrote: genkernel will allow you to also issue --menuconfig which will allow you into the kernel configuration process. I really didn't know that! I thought genkernel just compiled everything! Anyway, I fixed the problem with my initramfs. It was a bug in mkinitrd. I still need to

[gentoo-user] Is anyone using initramfs on Gentoo?

2006-04-29 Thread Norberto Bensa
Hello list, I've tried to move my built-in ide (via) and rootfs (reiser) modules outside of the kernel, but when I try to boot the new kernel and its corresponding initramfs, it fails miserably with one of the following messages. If I use root=/dev/hda7 (my root): Unable to mount root fs on