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From: Dale <dalek@××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] genkernal refuses to finish - no initrd
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 10:47:11
Message-Id: 43995F09.8010408@exceedtech.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] genkernal refuses to finish - no initrd by Harry Putnam
1 Harry Putnam wrote:
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3 >Installing from scratch, using networked install, I've built two
4 >kernels from 2.6.14 sources, each time the mods I'd listed autoload
5 >fail to be loaded and are apparently never built.
6 >
7 >
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9 I'm not big on the genkernel thing but I had the same thing earlier and
10 I was doing it manually. I don't know how to fix it but you are not
11 alone. This is on a running rig too, not from the CD.
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13 >Or alternatively it seems one could just use /proc/config.gz as
14 >/usr/src/linux/.config and run it manually. Except I'm at a loss as
15 >to how an intitrd is built manually from a kernel compile.
16 >
17 >
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19 One would thnk that would work. I have never done it before though.
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21 Dale
22 :-)
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26 To err is human, I'm most certainly human.
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28 I have four rigs:
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30 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives.
31 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive.
32 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 128MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive.
33 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive.
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35 All run Gentoo, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers.
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