[gentoo-user] Laptop resurrection...
I'm still working to get my laptop back up; I have one more thing to try. Presently, I am having a problem with the compiling a 2.6.30-gentoo-r8 kernel that actually works. It might be a processor issue - linux reports it as a Pentium M which is what I have selected during 'make menuconfig', but the the grub keeps reporting that it is not a recognized format or something to that effect, so it won't load it. Questions: 1) I am using the Gentoo 2007.0 LiveCD to boot with, then chroot'ing into my installation to build the kernel. I shouldn't need a newer LiveCD, correct? 2) Grub doesn't need to be re-run (e.g. running the grub prompt and going through the install procedure) after changes to the menu file, correct? TIA, Ben
Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop resurrection...
2009/12/2 BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com: I'm still working to get my laptop back up; I have one more thing to try. Presently, I am having a problem with the compiling a 2.6.30-gentoo-r8 kernel that actually works. It might be a processor issue - linux reports it as a Pentium M which is what I have selected during 'make menuconfig', but the the grub keeps reporting that it is not a recognized format or something to that effect, so it won't load it. Questions: 1) I am using the Gentoo 2007.0 LiveCD to boot with, then chroot'ing into my installation to build the kernel. I shouldn't need a newer LiveCD, correct? Correct as long as it recognise your hardware. 2) Grub doesn't need to be re-run (e.g. running the grub prompt and going through the install procedure) after changes to the menu file, correct? Correct, assuming you have installed GRUB correctly in the first instance - which makes me ask: What is your exact error message? -- Regards, Mick
Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop resurrection...
On 12/2/2009 11:26 AM, Mick wrote: 2009/12/2 BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com: I'm still working to get my laptop back up; I have one more thing to try. Presently, I am having a problem with the compiling a 2.6.30-gentoo-r8 kernel that actually works. It might be a processor issue - linux reports it as a Pentium M which is what I have selected during 'make menuconfig', but the the grub keeps reporting that it is not a recognized format or something to that effect, so it won't load it. Questions: 1) I am using the Gentoo 2007.0 LiveCD to boot with, then chroot'ing into my installation to build the kernel. I shouldn't need a newer LiveCD, correct? Correct as long as it recognise your hardware. 2) Grub doesn't need to be re-run (e.g. running the grub prompt and going through the install procedure) after changes to the menu file, correct? Correct, assuming you have installed GRUB correctly in the first instance - which makes me ask: What is your exact error message? I got that error when I copied the wrong kernel image to /boot, make sure you are copying the one detailed in the gentoo handbook (chapter 7, I think). Marcus
Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop resurrection...
On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 06:13 -0800, BRM wrote: the the grub keeps reporting that it is not a recognized format or something to that effect, so it won't load it. Please post the exact error message (write it down if need be). Simply saying or something to that effect tends to lead to errors in responses (or something to that effect ;). -a
Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop resurrection...
- Original Message From: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com 2009/12/2 BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com: I'm still working to get my laptop back up; I have one more thing to try. Presently, I am having a problem with the compiling a 2.6.30-gentoo-r8 kernel that actually works. It might be a processor issue - linux reports it as a Pentium M which is what I have selected during 'make menuconfig', but the the grub keeps reporting that it is not a recognized format or something to that effect, so it won't load it. Questions: 1) I am using the Gentoo 2007.0 LiveCD to boot with, then chroot'ing into my installation to build the kernel. I shouldn't need a newer LiveCD, correct? Correct as long as it recognise your hardware. Thanks. 2) Grub doesn't need to be re-run (e.g. running the grub prompt and going through the install procedure) after changes to the menu file, correct? Correct, assuming you have installed GRUB correctly in the first instance Thanks - which makes me ask: What is your exact error message? I'll post that tonight. - Original Message From: Marcus Wanner marc...@cox.net I got that error when I copied the wrong kernel image to /boot, make sure you are copying the one detailed in the gentoo handbook (chapter 7, I think). The last kernel I copied in I copied the file specified by the kernel's README: arch/arch/boot/bzImage - arch being x86. Though according to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kernel-config.xml it should be arch/i386/boot/bzImage...not sure which is right off hand. Will check into it tonight. Ben
Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop resurrection...
BRM wrote: - Original Message From: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com 2009/12/2 BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com: I'm still working to get my laptop back up; I have one more thing to try. Presently, I am having a problem with the compiling a 2.6.30-gentoo-r8 kernel that actually works. It might be a processor issue - linux reports it as a Pentium M which is what I have selected during 'make menuconfig', but the the grub keeps reporting that it is not a recognized format or something to that effect, so it won't load it. Questions: 1) I am using the Gentoo 2007.0 LiveCD to boot with, then chroot'ing into my installation to build the kernel. I shouldn't need a newer LiveCD, correct? Correct as long as it recognise your hardware. Thanks. 2) Grub doesn't need to be re-run (e.g. running the grub prompt and going through the install procedure) after changes to the menu file, correct? Correct, assuming you have installed GRUB correctly in the first instance Thanks - which makes me ask: What is your exact error message? I'll post that tonight. - Original Message From: Marcus Wanner marc...@cox.net I got that error when I copied the wrong kernel image to /boot, make sure you are copying the one detailed in the gentoo handbook (chapter 7, I think). The last kernel I copied in I copied the file specified by the kernel's README: arch/arch/boot/bzImage - arch being x86. Though according to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kernel-config.xml it should be arch/i386/boot/bzImage...not sure which is right off hand. Will check into it tonight. Ben This may not be the problem but I ran into this a while back. Some times when I build a kernel, the bzImage in */i386/boot is actually a link, not the bzImage itself. Naturally copying a link will not boot, especially if it breaks the link or /usr is on a separate partition and not mounted yet. I ran into this twice with two different kernels. I can't recall the version tho. You may want to check that before you copy the bzImage over, just to make sure it is a file and not a link. Oh, don't forget to mount /boot too. Very common thing to forget. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop resurrection... (solved)
- Original Message From: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com On Wednesday 02 December 2009 20:52:35 BRM wrote: - Original Message From: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com 2009/12/2 BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com: - which makes me ask: What is your exact error message? I'll post that tonight. Exact error message was: ERROR 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format Well, I mounted the drive again - and didn't go into the chroot shell. I had been doing all the copying from within the chroot before. I found the arch/i386/boot/bzImage, which does just point to arch/x86/boot/bzImage. I had copied arch/x86/boot/bzImage but for whatever reason the md5 hashes of the image and what I had copied didn't match. So I copied it, rebooted, and viola it worked. Odd...not sure what was up with it; but it's working. Now to update the environment. - Original Message From: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com Oh, don't forget to mount /boot too. Very common thing to for True; however I don't setup /boot that way unless I absolutely have to - namely for older systems that couldn't access the whole hard drive until after the kernel was loaded, or some other explicit reason. I haven't had a system like that in a long time. And it wasn't needed on this system. Thanks! Ben
