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On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 12:35 -0400, Benjamen R. Meyer wrote: |
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> I'm working on a Sparc system (SunBlade 2000 Desktop Server) that needs |
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> an initrd image to load (due to having a QLA 2200 SCSI controller); but |
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> I am having some trouble with the initrd image. |
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> (I had tried the gentoo-sparc list, but it is slow - I'm not getting |
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> responses - and I need to finish this server by Friday. And the issue |
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> right now is solely the initrd image.) |
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> The problem I am having is that the kernel is complaining about not |
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> having the initrd image. I have SILO (sparc equiv of LILO) installed, |
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> and have told it of the initrd image, but the kernel doesn't seem to |
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> find it. (SILO reports all is well, so I can only assume it is finding |
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> the initrd image without a problem.) |
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> My main question comes down to this: I am using the 'genkernel' package |
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> to build & install the kernel and initrd image. Both show up in /boot. |
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> How much can I rely on genkernel to build a valid initrd image? |
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Try "genkernel menuconfig all" to check for a valid kernel config before |
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genkernel builds it. Refer to genkernel's man-page for further options. |
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> How can |
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> I mount the initrd image to verify it has the modules, etc. and verify |
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> it is a valid image? |
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There is a wiki-entry about it: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Initramfs |
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Hope this helps. |
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