On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 17:13 +0200, Sascha Lucas wrote: > On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > kernel it gave me a kernel panic. It said something about not being > > able to find the root fs. Should there be an initrd line? Also, I > > you only need an initrd if you have some special hardware. Do you? I.E. > sata controler (intel ICH6), SCSI, or some special things with your root > filesystem like lvm, md... > > > saved the output of the genkernel script. I mv'd the files > > from /etc/kernel to /tmp, but I still saw this line in the genkernel > > output: > > > > * Linux Kernel 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 for x86... > > * kernel: >> Running mrproper... > > * config: Using config from /usr/share/genkernel/x86/kernel-config-2.6 > > * Previous config backed up to .config.bak > > * >> Running oldconfig... > > > > Should this be happening? > > thats fine. this lines told you, that a generic kernel-config (like on > livecd) is used. > > The first thing is to make your kernel booting. This is not a hard thing, > if you have no special setup. The siplest case is that your root=/dev/hdxx > in grub.conf is wrong. Type "mount" and see what device is mounted for > "/boot". If you have none for "/boot" look for "/". Then use this device > in the root= parameter. > > Sascha.
Then why does Linux not continue to boot when I specify a kernel in grub.conf without an initrd? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
