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From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@×××××.at>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gummiboot does not display new kernel
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2015 08:18:47
Message-Id: 54FD56E3.7010707@xunil.at
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] gummiboot does not display new kernel by Fernando Rodriguez
1 On 08.03.2015 23:20, Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
2 > On Sunday, March 08, 2015 10:37:22 PM Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
3 >> ... why my initrd is 21M is another question ..)
4
5 > Do you have proprietary video drivers in it? fglrx alone is 13 megs and if
6 > it's for plymouth it doesnt use them so it's just taking space.
7
8 Seems like, yes.
9
10 My dracut.conf was back to default (no options set) so it put everything
11 in there.
12
13 I now set
14
15 hostonly="yes"
16
17 and the initrd went from 21M to ~7M ... nice!
18
19 thanks!
20
21 -
22
23 I rebuilt all the kernels/initrds and now have these loader-entries:
24
25 # ls -l loader/entries/
26 total 2
27 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 329 9. Mär 09:04
28 e55a6b6a09bd2b1c50216272545a8d1f-3.19.0-gentoo.conf
29 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 329 9. Mär 09:01
30 e55a6b6a09bd2b1c50216272545a8d1f-3.19.1-gentoo.conf
31 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 311 9. Mär 09:06
32 e55a6b6a09bd2b1c50216272545a8d1f-4.0-rc2.conf
33 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 329 8. Mär 17:34 stefan.conf
34
35 And the 3.19.1 still does not get displayed at boot time!
36
37 ;-)

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Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] gummiboot does not display new kernel "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>
Re: [gentoo-user] gummiboot does not display new kernel "Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@×××××.at>