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BRM wrote: |
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> From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> |
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>> 2009/12/2 BRM <bm_witness@×××××.com>: |
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>>> I'm still working to get my laptop back up; I have one more thing to try. |
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>>> Presently, I am having a problem with the compiling a 2.6.30-gentoo-r8 kernel that actually works. It might be a processor issue - linux reports it as a |
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>>> Pentium M which is what I have selected during 'make menuconfig', but the the grub keeps reporting that it is not a recognized format or something to that effect, so it won't load it. |
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>>> Questions: |
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>>> 1) I am using the Gentoo 2007.0 LiveCD to boot with, then chroot'ing into my installation to build the kernel. I shouldn't need a newer LiveCD, correct? |
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>> Correct as long as it recognise your hardware. |
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> Thanks. |
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>>> 2) Grub doesn't need to be re-run (e.g. running the grub prompt and going through the install procedure) after changes to the menu file, correct? |
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>> Correct, assuming you have installed GRUB correctly in the first instance |
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> Thanks |
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>> - which makes me ask: |
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>> What is your exact error message? |
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> I'll post that tonight. |
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> ----- Original Message ---- |
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> From: Marcus Wanner <marcusw@×××.net> |
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>> I got that error when I copied the wrong kernel image to /boot, make |
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>> sure you are copying the one detailed in the gentoo handbook (chapter 7, I think). |
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> The last kernel I copied in I copied the file specified by the kernel's README: arch/<arch>/boot/bzImage - <arch> being x86. |
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> Though according to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kernel-config.xml it should be arch/i386/boot/bzImage...not sure which is right off hand. |
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> Will check into it tonight. |
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> Ben |
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This may not be the problem but I ran into this a while back. Some |
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times when I build a kernel, the bzImage in */i386/boot is actually a |
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link, not the bzImage itself. Naturally copying a link will not boot, |
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especially if it breaks the link or /usr is on a separate partition and |
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not mounted yet. |
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I ran into this twice with two different kernels. I can't recall the |
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version tho. You may want to check that before you copy the bzImage |
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over, just to make sure it is a file and not a link. |
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Oh, don't forget to mount /boot too. Very common thing to forget. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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