Re: [gentoo-dev] 2.2 kernels under gentoo

[Grant Goodyear]

> kernel /boot/CMKernel root=/dev/hda1 rootfstype=ext2 vga=791
> gentoo=notmpfs,nodevfs

I've never used the rootfstype flag, but otherwise everything looks
right.

> i googled a bit for similar errors and found some people who claimed
> that this error and others similar could come from building things like
> libc under a 2.4 kernel and then trying to use it under a 2.2 kernel.
> i'm a little skeptical of this though... any thoughts?

Oh, dear.  Um, it might well be possible.  It is true that glibc builds
against an installed set of linux headers (that's why we have a
linux-headers package in Portage), so if you have a spare partition
available you might want to try bootstrapping again in a chroot on that
partition, only edit /etc/make.profile/packages to limit the
linux-headers package to be less than 2.4 beforehand.  Then try to boot
into that partition.  (You may need to build a 2.2 kernel in the chroot,
but I'm really not sure.)

> i haven't posted a bug yet because i'd like to make sure its not an
> error on my part!

Please go ahead and post a bug anyway.  Otherwise things tend to get
lost.  Also, more developers read the bug reports than actually read the
mailing lists (since the gentoo-dev traffic can get pretty high).


Thanks,
g2boojum