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Stewart Taylor wrote: |
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> Hi all |
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> I've been trying to install Gentoo. I want to see if Gentoo is for me so |
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> I've kept it simple. My first attempt I tried a stage1 install, as this |
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> failed the second time I tried a stage3 install, if it failed less time |
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> wasted. Both times I opted for a genkernel install, everything seemed |
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> OK, no error messages and all stages completed. However both times when |
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> I get to 7.d ls /boot/kernel* /boot/initrd* I get the same result both |
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> times: |
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> /boot/initrd*:no such file or directory |
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> /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-genkernel-r6 |
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> Taking the entry in the grub configure example as a guide I've searched |
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> for any initrd files just in case it's somewhere else the only entries |
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> are a couple of .gz files in /usr/man/man4 nothing else. |
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> I could use some help to sort this out as I have no idea what to do. |
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> TIA |
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> Stewart |
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With recent versions of genkernel you should do "ls /boot/kernel* /boot/initramfs*" instead. Note that the initramfs or initrd is not required if your kernel has sufficient drivers built in. |
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Zac |
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