Re: [gentoo-user] Boot hangs after install, no error

[Albert Hopkins]

On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 14:26 +1000, Jake Moe wrote:
> No, I was tempted to try genkernel, but again, OCD got the best of me;
> I
> like Gentoo because I tell it what I want and need, and it does that
> and
> nothing else.  Genkernel, in my understand, does everything (and
> apparently does it pretty well), but it means that it's bigger than it
> needs to be.  Plus, I hadn't gotten a reply back in a while, and I'm
> limited on time with this laptop, so I went back to that which I know
> better.
>
> And I thought the Live CD used genkernel; I thought that was where
> genkernel came from in the first place?  Is it different?

I have no idea; I don't use genkernel.

All I'm saying is if you can try booting on a kernel you know at least
*should* work (such as the live cd or genkernel) and that works then at
least you can deduce it down to kernel config. 

-a