Re: [gentoo-user] Re: initrd where is the docu

2005-12-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 21:36:11 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it not required for the trademark gentoo boot up with nifty graphics? gensplash has its own tools for creating the initrd/initramfs for the boot splash. -- Neil Bothwick WinErr 013: Unexpected error - Huh ? signature.asc

[gentoo-user] Re: initrd where is the docu

2005-12-19 Thread reader
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 21:36:11 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it not required for the trademark gentoo boot up with nifty graphics? gensplash has its own tools for creating the initrd/initramfs for the boot splash. esearch doesn't know about

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: initrd where is the docu

2005-12-19 Thread Andres Becerra Sandoval
On 12/19/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 21:36:11 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it not required for the trademark gentoo boot up with nifty graphics? gensplash has its own tools for creating the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: initrd where is the docu

2005-12-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 05:46:00 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: gensplash has its own tools for creating the initrd/initramfs for the boot splash. esearch doesn't know about gensplash. What package is it a part of? splashutils - full info at http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/gensplash/

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: initrd where is the docu

2005-12-19 Thread Holly Bostick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mkinitrd :) you shouldn't need that with a 2.6 kernel, though. Is it not required for the trademark gentoo boot up with nifty graphics? The nifty graphics on boot are not provided by any kernel initrd you may create,

[gentoo-user] Re: initrd where is the docu

2005-12-18 Thread reader
John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mkinitrd :) you shouldn't need that with a 2.6 kernel, though. Is it not required for the trademark gentoo boot up with nifty graphics? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: initrd where is the docu

2005-12-18 Thread reader
John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mkinitrd :) man mkinitrd No manual entry for mkinitrd man -k mkinitrd mkinitrd: nothing appropriate -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: initrd where is the docu

2005-12-18 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 18, 2005, at 9:36 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mkinitrd :) you shouldn't need that with a 2.6 kernel, though. Is it not required for the trademark gentoo boot up with nifty graphics? hmm, that may be. I prefer not to bother with that mess.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: initrd where is the docu

2005-12-18 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 21:36:11 -0600 reader wrote: John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mkinitrd :) you shouldn't need that with a 2.6 kernel, though. Is it not required for the trademark gentoo boot up with nifty graphics? who cares, real men don't reboot :-) -- Nick Rout [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] Re: initrd where is the docu

2005-12-18 Thread reader
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mkinitrd :) man mkinitrd No manual entry for mkinitrd man -k mkinitrd mkinitrd: nothing appropriate Never mind esearch mkinitrd * sys-apps/mkinitrd Latest version available: 4.2.0.3 Latest version

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: initrd where is the docu

2005-12-18 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 18, 2005, at 9:47 PM, Nick Rout wrote: On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 21:36:11 -0600 reader wrote: John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mkinitrd :) you shouldn't need that with a 2.6 kernel, though. Is it not required for the trademark gentoo boot up with nifty graphics? who cares,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: initrd where is the docu

2005-12-18 Thread Zac Medico
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mkinitrd :) you shouldn't need that with a 2.6 kernel, though. Is it not required for the trademark gentoo boot up with nifty graphics? The installer initramfs is created by genkernel. I use it myself to generate an

[gentoo-user] Re: initrd where is the docu

2005-12-18 Thread reader
Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: who cares, real men don't reboot :-) Well I did write my 6000 word thesis with only echo and cat Ok, I did slip in `ed' toward the end. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list