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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Boot hangs after install, no error
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 02:06:08
Message-Id: 4C1C2022.2070300@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Boot hangs after install, no error by Albert Hopkins
1 Albert Hopkins wrote:
2 > On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 14:26 +1000, Jake Moe wrote:
3 >
4 >> No, I was tempted to try genkernel, but again, OCD got the best of me;
5 >> I
6 >> like Gentoo because I tell it what I want and need, and it does that
7 >> and
8 >> nothing else. Genkernel, in my understand, does everything (and
9 >> apparently does it pretty well), but it means that it's bigger than it
10 >> needs to be. Plus, I hadn't gotten a reply back in a while, and I'm
11 >> limited on time with this laptop, so I went back to that which I know
12 >> better.
13 >>
14 >> And I thought the Live CD used genkernel; I thought that was where
15 >> genkernel came from in the first place? Is it different?
16 >>
17 > I have no idea; I don't use genkernel.
18 >
19 > All I'm saying is if you can try booting on a kernel you know at least
20 > *should* work (such as the live cd or genkernel) and that works then at
21 > least you can deduce it down to kernel config.
22 >
23 > -a
24 >
25 >
26
27 This is funny. I have NEVER got a genkernel to work on my system.
28 Actually, on any system. I'm not sure the OP would know that kernel is
29 any better then the one he makes.
30
31 Dale
32
33 :-) :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Boot hangs after install, no error Bill Longman <bill.longman@×××××.com>