On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 01:55:30PM +0000, Mick wrote > If you had not enabled framebuffer in your old kernel then I can't > think how it would show up as enabled in your new kernel (as far as I > know fb is not enabled by default on any kernels that I've ever built)
I'm running textmode console as I type this message. I can tell the difference between the font in this mode, versus the dinky font when booting from the install CD. I was getting the dinky font like the install CD, with a lot more than 80 columns across. > > > And there was a kernel panic because gentoo couldn't > > find the boot device. > > Hmm ... so it's not just framebuffer but different filesystems perhaps? I've got a 400 megabyte / (/dev/sda5) and the rest of the disk is ReiserFS, with bindmounts for /opt, /var, /usr. and /tmp. Here is part of my /etc/fstab... /dev/sda5 / ext2 noatime 0 1 /dev/sda7 /home reiserfs noatime,notail 0 2 /home/bindmounts/opt /opt auto bind 0 0 /home/bindmounts/var /var auto bind 0 0 /home/bindmounts/usr /usr auto bind 0 0 /home/bindmounts/tmp /tmp auto bind 0 0 Part of the output from "cat /proc/config.gz | gunzip | less"... # # File systems # CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y CONFIG_EXT2_FS_XATTR=y CONFIG_EXT2_FS_POSIX_ACL=y # CONFIG_EXT2_FS_SECURITY is not set # CONFIG_EXT2_FS_XIP is not set # CONFIG_EXT3_FS is not set # CONFIG_EXT4_FS is not set CONFIG_FS_MBCACHE=y CONFIG_REISERFS_FS=y # CONFIG_REISERFS_CHECK is not set # CONFIG_REISERFS_PROC_INFO is not set CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_XATTR=y CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_POSIX_ACL=y # CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_SECURITY is not set # CONFIG_JFS_FS is not set CONFIG_FS_POSIX_ACL=y # CONFIG_XFS_FS is not set # CONFIG_OCFS2_FS is not set # CONFIG_BTRFS_FS is not set CONFIG_FILE_LOCKING=y CONFIG_DNOTIFY=y CONFIG_INOTIFY=y CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER=y # CONFIG_QUOTA is not set # CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS is not set # CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS is not set # CONFIG_FUSE_FS is not set > With regards to your kernel panic I suspect an error in the .config > file you copied over. Do you keep a copy both in > /usr/src/linux-gentoo-XXX/ and in /boot? If yes then copy over your > .config from a different location this time, otherwise you'll have to > go about it through the manual method. I'll try "cat /proc/config.gz | gunzip > .config" and run oldconfig on that instead. And I'm running gcc-4.3.4, and it's the only gcc on my system, and gcc-config agrees. > PS. Just checking the obvious: you aren't manually patching your > kernels and forgot to do it this time, right? Nope, nothing like that. PS, why isn't there a "gzcat" command in Gentoo? -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
