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I haven't had any problems with the gentoo kernel sources. I have r9 on |
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a couple machines. r7 on another and a custom ACPI enabled kernel |
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(http://sourceforge.net/projects/acpi) on my laptop based off the |
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vanilla 2.4.19 (with 2.4.20-pre5 patched in). |
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It sounds like you're probably making a simple mistake somewhere in your |
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kernel upgrade somewhere. |
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My usual kernel install procedure is: |
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#cd /usr/portage/sys-kernel/... |
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#ebuild <insert kernel ebuild version here> merge (so it won't |
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unmerge any older ones) |
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#cd /usr/src/linux-<version> |
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#cp /usr/src/linux/.config . |
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#make oldconfig |
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#make dep && make clean bzImage modules modules_install |
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#cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/gentoo<version>-<my-build#>.img |
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#cp System.map /boot/System.map-<version>-<my-build#> |
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#cd /usr/src |
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#rm linux |
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#ln -s linux-<version> linux |
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#cd /boot |
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#rm System.map |
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#ln -s System.map-<version>-<my-build#> System.map |
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edit /etc/lilo.conf for the new version (okay, I still use lilo :-) |
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#lilo |
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#shutdown -r now |
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Wow, I actually do all that? I've never written it all down before :-) |
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I don't have /boot in it's own partition in my setup... |
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It's gonna be something silly, I'm sure :-) |
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Good luck, |
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Tom |
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Burton Samograd wrote: |
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>Hi, |
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>Is it just me, or are the new gentoo-sources unusable? I just went |
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>through hell trying to get one of them to boot with absolutely no |
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>sucess. I kept getting "Cannot find init errors" to "* respawning too |
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>quickly" to whatever you could think of. I've never had this many |
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>problems with installing a kernel in my life, and I'm wondering if I'm |
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>doing something dreadfully wrong or if these new sources are just |
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>really unstable with all the patches installed. |
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>Just to let you know, i'm not experiencing newbie mistakes as i've |
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>been using linux for over 8 years and never had a kernel not boot |
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>unless it was something stupid on my part. I did everything in my |
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>experience to get these darn things working and well...they just don't |
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>for me. Anybody else having problems like this? |
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>Oh, and the linux-beta sources also won't boot either, but those are |
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>beta and i don't expect anything from them :) |
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>burton |
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