Re: [gentoo-user] Problem booting after reinstall

[frank]

No, I never use genkernel and I use modules only for things I need once
a year (loop, ramdisk, ... ) or things which can't be built into the
kernel.

Just now I tried the vanilla kernel. Let's see what the reboot brings
up.

Regards
Frank


On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 10:16 +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 12:16:01 -0700
> Richard Fish wrote:
>
> > On 8/20/06, frank <sdoma@××××××××.cz> wrote:
> > > Has anyone an Idea? I don't have further :(
> >
> > Since the kernel is being found it is not a grub setup problem.
> >
> > Either:
> >
> > a. The filesystem drivers are not compiled into your kernel.  You said
> > you configured them...are they built in (=y) or as modules (=m)?
> >
> > b. You did not configure the drivers for your IDE chipset or IDE hard
> > drive into the kernel.  Here again, they should be "=y" in the .config
> > file.
> >
> > The outputs of lspci and "grep '=[ym]' /usr/src/linux/.config" may be
> > helpful for us to look at if you can't find the answer.
>
> Or he used genkernel but has not given grub the appropriate options for
> initrd and ramfs.
>
> here is a sample from the install manual:
>
> title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.12-r10
>
> root (hd0,0)
>
> kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r10 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda3 udev
>
> initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r10
>
> (because of email wrapping I have put a space between separate lines,
> the section starting "kernel" and ending "udev" is all one line.)
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1
>
> --
> Nick Rout <nick@×××××××.nz>
>

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