Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a gentoo guest on virtualbox?

[Mick]

On Tuesday 31 May 2011 08:07:24 Pandu Poluan wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 13:56, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
wrote:
> > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 3:14 AM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info> wrote:
> >> Meh, I clicked 'Send' too fast.
> >>
> >> *My* suggested solution:
> >>
> >> Generate an initramfs containing udev. The hands-down easiest way is
> >> using genkernel's 'only create an initramfs' switch (sorry I forgot
> >> what exactly).
> >
> > good god no, please, anything but genkernel.
> >
> > That thing is an attempt to emulate binary distros which require an
> > initramfs to work properly (for any sane definition of "work") as the
> > person building the installer has no idea what hardware the user will
> > have. In Gentoo the user knows exactly what they have so there's no
> > need for a gigantic hardware-detecting workaround at boot time.
> >
> >> This needs to be done exactly once throughout the life of your VM.
> >>
> >> (To the herd of Gentoo graybeards, feel free to CMIIW)
> >
> > Or wait a few days for vapier's (posting under his other name of
> > spanky) sane advice to be implemented. His proposal is the sole voice
> > of reason in that bug thread....
>
> True. But I was having problem installing 2 servers on top of XenServer.
>
> So I cheated and ran 'genkernel initramfs' exactly once. At least I
> got myself a booting system. :-)
>
> When SpanKY's makedev gets stabilized and pushed to baselayout, I'll
> then happily ditch the genkernel cheat for my next VMs :-)

Are you sure that manually creating /dev/console and /dev/null isn't all that 
is required?  The rest of the devices will be created by udev when it runs at 
boot time.

-- 
Regards,
Mick