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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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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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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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