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On 10/09/2011 06:25 AM, Lavender wrote: |
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> It seems that no matter I build gentoo manually or with genkernel I |
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> can't have a fine-working kernel finally. Obviously I must solve it by |
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> myself , so I determined to build entire kernel all manually , it |
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> requests a lot of linux knowlege . All for that, I hope someone could |
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> tell me where to get this information , I haven't found them on |
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> gentoo.org , so please lead me to the correct direction, thank you for |
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> you all ! |
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If you're new to building kernel, it will take some time to learn what |
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modules you need what options you should enable, etc. |
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You're building gentoo on some host Linux os, so you can use that os's |
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lsmod utility to know what modules you require. |
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Also, if some modules may be compiled right into the kernel you may not |
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be able to see them in the lsmod produces, instead use lspci -v for that. |
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One important thing I learnt the hard way while building gentoo for a |
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server- Always compile the critical modules like disk controllers, RAID, |
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also don't forget to use RAID autodetection if you're not going to use |
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an initramfs and filesystems (involved at boot) statically. |
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While citing my experience about building gentoo on a server, you have |
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to do the things invisibly, so you can't see what the kernel emits befor |
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panic. |
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It turned out that I'd disabled RAID autodetection and wasn't using an |
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initramfs either (which will load the arrays using mdadm). |
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Nilesh Govindarajan |
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http://nileshgr.com |
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