I,m new to this so be gentle. Having come from a point and click SuSE install.
I,ve installed Gentoo 1.4 stage3 OK but I want to recompile a 2.6 or 2.4.22
smp kernel in place of the genkernel that I installed.
Now that I have emerged mkinitrd I get
all your loop back devices are busy
when I do
I,m new to this so be gentle. Having come from a point and click
SuSE install.
I,ve installed Gentoo 1.4 stage3 OK but I want to recompile a 2.6
or 2.4.22
smp kernel in place of the genkernel that I installed.
Now that I have emerged mkinitrd I get
all your loop back devices are busy
when
Are you sure you have use for an initrd, I'd say 99% of the people don't
need a initrd.
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Subject: [gentoo-user] mkinitrd
I,m new to this so be gentle. Having come
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 7:26 PM
Subject: [gentoo-user] mkinitrd
I,m new to this so be gentle. Having come from a point and click SuSE
install.
I,ve installed Gentoo 1.4 stage3 OK but I want to recompile a 2.6 or
2.4.22
smp kernel in place of the genkernel
emerge the kernel you want, remake the symlink in /usr/src, rerun
genkernel --config
If the kernel is not too different to what you are currently using, copy
the /etc/kernel/config-n to the new version number and genkernel will
startup with most of the correct options set.
The error you are
Am Dienstag, 5. August 2003 04:25 schrieb ext wes chow:
Which package has the mkinitrd program? I can't seem to find it...
Short answer: None.
Longer answer: mkinitrd usually is a shell script specific to a particular
distribution. In Gentoo, creating an initrd is part of the genkernel
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 08:33:36 +0200
Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In most cases, you don't even need an initrd.
However, if you really want an initrd, check out genkernel (it's in
portage). It's a fancy little script to help you compile your kernel.
I was monkeying around with it and
I've made the switch from redhat to gentoo and I like what I see but I have a
couple of questions.
1) Is there some form of mkinitrd? I need to create a ramdisk to load some
modules (like reiserfs, evms, etc). However I've installed stage1 and stage2
and I don't see the program anywhere.
2) Is
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 13:29:26 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1) Is there some form of mkinitrd? I need to create a ramdisk to load
some modules (like reiserfs, evms, etc). However I've installed
stage1 and stage2 and I don't see the program anywhere.
I was wondering the
Hi Amith,
Am Donnerstag, 26. Juni 2003 19:29 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
[...]
1) Is there some form of mkinitrd? I need to create a ramdisk to
load some modules (like reiserfs, evms, etc). However I've
installed stage1 and stage2 and I don't see the program anywhere.
there is the program
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