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2013/8/28 Francisco Ares <frares@×××××.com> |
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> 2013/8/28 Michael Hampicke <mh@××××.biz> |
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>> Am 27.08.2013 22:40, schrieb Francisco Ares: |
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>> >> I think I might have found it. Although I have selected in the kernel |
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>> >> "menuconfig" to compress the initramfs using gzip and deselected all |
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>> other |
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>> >> decompression forms. a simple "file initramfs-xxx" told me that it was |
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>> "XZ |
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>> >> compressed data", so now I am rebuilding the kernel with all |
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>> decompression |
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>> >> algorithms built in. |
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>> >> I will (hope) soon post the results. |
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>> >> Thanks, |
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>> >> Francisco |
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>> > It did not work :-( |
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>> You could try generating an initramfs with dracut - see if that works. |
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>> You possible have to change the name of the initramfs in grub.cfg. Files |
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>> generated with dracut don't have *genkernel* in it's filename. |
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>> If you can boot with dracut initramfs, you can investigate why the |
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>> initramfs of genkernel does not work. |
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> Thanks, Michael, gonna read about dracut and try it out. |
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> Right now "gentoo-sources-3.10.7" is being built, still using genkernel (I |
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> was using gentoo-sources-3.8.13). |
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> Meanwhile: the profile for this new install is |
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> "default/linux/amd64/13.0/no-multilib" - and I see that the directory where |
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> grub2 stores modules in /boot/grub2 is named "i386-pc". Switching to a |
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> multilib profile and issuing an "emerge -pvuDN world", I see that, for |
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> instance, glibc is queued to be rebuilt with "multilib" use flag. |
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> What I mean is: does genkernel uses the binaries already available in the |
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> filesystem it works on, or does it build its own ones? If so, is genkernel |
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> + grub2 compatible with a "no-multilib" profile? I guess so, specially |
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> after reading grub2 documentation, but, on the other hand, in a working |
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> system, I could see that busybox from the initramfs (thanks, Neil!) and the |
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> one in the root filesystem are different. |
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> Thanks again! |
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> Francisco |
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Hi |
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While trying to learn about dracut, I found a detail that made me look |
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closer to the genkernel generated initramfs, and I found that the error |
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message was perfectly clear: there was no /dev/sda5, where my "real_root" |
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is, that initramfs has just /dev/sda1 to /dev/sda4 . |
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I think it must be a limitation on genkernel part, although I was unable to |
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find anything related to this issue up to now. |
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So now I have rearranged the partitions, using just the first ones. Now I |
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got a stuck splash image, no initialization shown, no progress bar |
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moving... but this is another problem, probably I forgot to change |
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something to reflect the new partitioning scheme. |
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Thanks to all. |
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Francisco |
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