Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 or kernel config - unable to properly boot [CLOSED]

2013-08-30 Thread Francisco Ares
2013/8/29 Francisco Ares fra...@gmail.com 2013/8/29 Gregory Shearman zek...@gmail.com In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: search for CONSOLE in this file and find: # exec ${CONSOLE} ${CONSOLE} 21 Just remove the hash at the start of the line, rebuild my initramfs and it is

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 or kernel config - unable to properly boot [NOT SOLVED]

2013-08-29 Thread Francisco Ares
2013/8/28 Gregory Shearman zek...@gmail.com In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: While trying to learn about dracut, I found a detail that made me look closer to the genkernel generated initramfs, and I found that the error message was perfectly clear: there was no /dev/sda5, where my

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 or kernel config - unable to properly boot [NOT SOLVED]

2013-08-29 Thread Gregory Shearman
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: search for CONSOLE in this file and find: # exec ${CONSOLE} ${CONSOLE} 21 Just remove the hash at the start of the line, rebuild my initramfs and it is ready to go. -- Regards, Gregory. Thanks Gregory. I really would like to find that partition

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 or kernel config - unable to properly boot [NOT SOLVED]

2013-08-29 Thread Francisco Ares
2013/8/29 Gregory Shearman zek...@gmail.com In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: search for CONSOLE in this file and find: # exec ${CONSOLE} ${CONSOLE} 21 Just remove the hash at the start of the line, rebuild my initramfs and it is ready to go. -- Regards, Gregory.

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 or kernel config - unable to properly boot

2013-08-28 Thread Francisco Ares
2013/8/28 Michael Hampicke m...@hadt.biz Am 27.08.2013 22:40, schrieb Francisco Ares: I think I might have found it. Although I have selected in the kernel menuconfig to compress the initramfs using gzip and deselected all other decompression forms. a simple file initramfs-xxx told me

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 or kernel config - unable to properly boot [SOLVED]

2013-08-28 Thread Francisco Ares
2013/8/28 Francisco Ares fra...@gmail.com 2013/8/28 Michael Hampicke m...@hadt.biz Am 27.08.2013 22:40, schrieb Francisco Ares: I think I might have found it. Although I have selected in the kernel menuconfig to compress the initramfs using gzip and deselected all other

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 or kernel config - unable to properly boot [SOLVED]

2013-08-28 Thread Gregory Shearman
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: While trying to learn about dracut, I found a detail that made me look closer to the genkernel generated initramfs, and I found that the error message was perfectly clear: there was no /dev/sda5, where my real_root is, that initramfs has just /dev/sda1 to

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 or kernel config - unable to properly boot

2013-08-27 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 26.08.2013 20:11, schrieb Francisco Ares: Hi, Michael, thanks for you reply. Please forgive me for not having mentioned grub2-mkconfig and grub2-install. The mentioned grub.cfg was a sample from a working system, with legacy grub:0, from which I have recovered parts of the kernel command

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 or kernel config - unable to properly boot

2013-08-27 Thread Francisco Ares
2013/8/27 Michael Hampicke m...@hadt.biz Am 26.08.2013 20:11, schrieb Francisco Ares: Hi, Michael, thanks for you reply. Please forgive me for not having mentioned grub2-mkconfig and grub2-install. The mentioned grub.cfg was a sample from a working system, with legacy grub:0, from

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 or kernel config - unable to properly boot

2013-08-27 Thread Wang Xuerui
2013/8/27 Francisco Ares fra...@gmail.com: In regard of file systems, it only loads a ext2 module, and the root partition is ext4 formated. Although this kernel has ext2, ext3 and ext4 built in (not modules), can this be a cue? Right now I am preparing to format the root partition as ext2,

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 or kernel config - unable to properly boot

2013-08-27 Thread Francisco Ares
2013/8/27 Francisco Ares fra...@gmail.com 2013/8/27 Michael Hampicke m...@hadt.biz Am 26.08.2013 20:11, schrieb Francisco Ares: Hi, Michael, thanks for you reply. Please forgive me for not having mentioned grub2-mkconfig and grub2-install. The mentioned grub.cfg was a sample from a

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 or kernel config - unable to properly boot

2013-08-27 Thread Francisco Ares
2013/8/27 Wang Xuerui idontknw.w...@gmail.com 2013/8/27 Francisco Ares fra...@gmail.com: In regard of file systems, it only loads a ext2 module, and the root partition is ext4 formated. Although this kernel has ext2, ext3 and ext4 built in (not modules), can this be a cue? Right now I

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 or kernel config - unable to properly boot

2013-08-27 Thread Francisco Ares
2013/8/27 Francisco Ares fra...@gmail.com 2013/8/27 Francisco Ares fra...@gmail.com 2013/8/27 Michael Hampicke m...@hadt.biz Am 26.08.2013 20:11, schrieb Francisco Ares: Hi, Michael, thanks for you reply. Please forgive me for not having mentioned grub2-mkconfig and grub2-install.

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 or kernel config - unable to properly boot

2013-08-27 Thread Francisco Ares
2013/8/27 Francisco Ares fra...@gmail.com 2013/8/27 Francisco Ares fra...@gmail.com 2013/8/27 Francisco Ares fra...@gmail.com 2013/8/27 Michael Hampicke m...@hadt.biz Am 26.08.2013 20:11, schrieb Francisco Ares: Hi, Michael, thanks for you reply. Please forgive me for not having

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 or kernel config - unable to properly boot

2013-08-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 08:31:05 -0300, Francisco Ares wrote: Any hints on how to diagnose a initramfs? AFAIK it is a filesystem. How can I mount it to check its contents? http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/07/how-to-view-modify-and-recreate-initrd-img/ -- Neil Bothwick Why is the word

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 or kernel config - unable to properly boot

2013-08-27 Thread Francisco Ares
2013/8/27 Francisco Ares fra...@gmail.com 2013/8/27 Francisco Ares fra...@gmail.com 2013/8/27 Francisco Ares fra...@gmail.com 2013/8/27 Francisco Ares fra...@gmail.com 2013/8/27 Michael Hampicke m...@hadt.biz Am 26.08.2013 20:11, schrieb Francisco Ares: Hi, Michael, thanks for you

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 or kernel config - unable to properly boot

2013-08-27 Thread Francisco Ares
2013/8/27 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 08:31:05 -0300, Francisco Ares wrote: Any hints on how to diagnose a initramfs? AFAIK it is a filesystem. How can I mount it to check its contents?

[gentoo-user] grub2 or kernel config - unable to properly boot

2013-08-26 Thread Francisco Ares
Hi, After a few solved problems, I am still unable to completely boot using grub:2, and now I just can't find anything else to fiddle with. So I would really appreciate if someone could take a look at my configuration: - system is amd64; - hard disk partitioning: - two first primary

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 or kernel config - unable to properly boot

2013-08-26 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 26.08.2013 17:41, schrieb Francisco Ares: Hi, After a few solved problems, I am still unable to completely boot using grub:2, and now I just can't find anything else to fiddle with. So I would really appreciate if someone could take a look at my configuration: - system is amd64; -

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 or kernel config - unable to properly boot

2013-08-26 Thread Francisco Ares
Hi, Michael, thanks for you reply. Please forgive me for not having mentioned grub2-mkconfig and grub2-install. The mentioned grub.cfg was a sample from a working system, with legacy grub:0, from which I have recovered parts of the kernel command line parameters. After genkernel finished to