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Florian Philipp wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 12:35 -0400, Benjamen R. Meyer wrote: |
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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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Yes, I did that. I ran genkernel, and generated it all. The initrd just |
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doesn't seem to be working. |
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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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Ok, so I used zcat to decompress the image, and then cpio to extract the |
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data to a temporary folder. (The instructions on the wiki didn't work |
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for some reason...complaints about finding cpio and zcat complaining |
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about arguments). Any how... |
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I snooped around the extracted files and was unable to find either the |
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qla2xxx module (or the qla2200 modules, or any modules for that matter) |
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or the qla2200 firmware. The firmware is on the hard drive (/dev/sda1 -> |
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/lib/firmward/qla2200_fw.bin), and so is the module - |
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/lib/modules/2.6.24-gentoo-r3/kernel/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla2xxx.ko. Is |
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the initrd image invalid?? Or are they stored somehow in the files |
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non-obviously? |
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How could I easily add them to the initrd image? (This is really my |
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first time playing with initrd images...) |
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Thanks, |
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Ben |
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