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On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 3:14 AM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info> wrote: |
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> Meh, I clicked 'Send' too fast. |
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> *My* suggested solution: |
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> Generate an initramfs containing udev. The hands-down easiest way is |
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> using genkernel's 'only create an initramfs' switch (sorry I forgot |
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> what exactly). |
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good god no, please, anything but genkernel. |
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That thing is an attempt to emulate binary distros which require an |
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initramfs to work properly (for any sane definition of "work") as the |
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person building the installer has no idea what hardware the user will |
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have. In Gentoo the user knows exactly what they have so there's no |
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need for a gigantic hardware-detecting workaround at boot time. |
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> This needs to be done exactly once throughout the life of your VM. |
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> (To the herd of Gentoo graybeards, feel free to CMIIW) |
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Or wait a few days for vapier's (posting under his other name of |
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spanky) sane advice to be implemented. His proposal is the sole voice |
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of reason in that bug thread.... |
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> Another alternative would be to mknod all required devices for |
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> booting. But, as evidenced in the bug I've linked to earlier, you |
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> might have to create more than 20 devs. Not a good use of time, if you |
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> ask me. Except if you're one of the guys doing the bug exorcising :) |
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> Oh, and please forgive my top-postings. Gmail's Java mobile client sucks. |
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> Rgds, |
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> On 2011-05-31, walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> In preparation for the upcoming "upgrade" to gnome3, I've installed |
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>> the latest gentoo snapshot to a new virtualbox machine. (So I can |
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>> trash my virtual gentoo machine instead of my real gentoo machine :) |
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>> The virtual install went perfectly AFAICT, except for building a new |
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>> customized kernel for the gentoo virtualbox machine. |
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>> Here's what I did to configure my new customized gentoo kernel: |
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>> I booted the gentoo install iso image in virtualbox and did lspci -k |
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>> and wrote down all the drivers it displayed. |
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>> I also booted my virtualbox ubuntu machine and did lspci -k and again |
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>> wrote down all the listed drivers. (Only one extra driver showed up |
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>> in ubuntu and I included it in my list of drivers to-be-installed.) |
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>> I configured my new gentoo custom kernel to use all of the drivers I'd |
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>> gathered from the steps above, and compiled and installed it without |
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>> any problems. |
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>> However, when I reboot the virtual gentoo guest machine with my new |
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>> customized kernel, the boot hangs forever after discovering devices |
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>> and mounting the root partition.ro. |
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>> Obviously I've configured my custom kernel incorrectly, but how? |
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>> If any of you have virtualbox guest gentoo machines running with a |
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>> custom kernel, would you please post your guest .config file for my |
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>> edification? |
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>> Many thanks! |
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> Pandu E Poluan - IT Optimizer |
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> My website: http://pandu.poluan.info/ |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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