From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EW0Ui-0005aT-5u for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 23:52:16 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9TNneqs001023; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 23:49:40 GMT Received: from relay.phys.ualberta.ca (relay.phys.ualberta.ca [129.128.7.238]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9TNnd1s001090 for ; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 23:49:39 GMT Received: from webmail.phys.ualberta.ca ([129.128.7.21]:14298 "EHLO webmail.phys.ualberta.ca" TLS-CIPHER: ) by relay.phys.ualberta.ca with ESMTP id ; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 17:49:33 -0600 Received: (from web-proxy@localhost) by webmail.phys.ualberta.ca (8.11.6/8.11.6) id j9TNnda10032; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 17:49:39 -0600 Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 17:49:39 -0600 Message-Id: <200510292349.j9TNnda10032@webmail.phys.ualberta.ca> X-Authentication-Warning: webmail.phys.ualberta.ca: web-proxy set sender to pogosyan@Phys.UAlberta.CA using -f From: "Dmitri Pogosyan" To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] initrd X-Mailer: Open WebMail 1.50 beta 20011007 X-OriginatingIP: 208.38.43.222 (pogosyan) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: d64b6236-8c62-4ba5-ae81-34fdfb5f504c X-Archives-Hash: 57552f13609492b2032ac69575275968 > On 29 Oct 2005, at 14:21, DR GM SEDDON wrote: > > Dmitri Pogosyan wrote: > >> Not really, you can use initramfs in place of initrd. I have in > >> grub.conf title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.13-r3 UDEV root (hd0,0) kernel / > >> kernel-2.6.13-gentoo-r3 root=/dev/ram0 ramdisk=16384 init=/linuxrc > >> real_root=/dev/sda2 vga=3847 udev initrd /initramfs-2.6.13-gentoo-r3 > >> > >>> Dear list, I have just started using Gentoo and up-to-now am > >>> impressed. I have generated a kernel using 'genkernel' and the > >>> kernel is in /boot. However, I do not have 'initrd' but > >>> 'initramfs'. is this a problem or should I modify grub > >>> appropriately? Gavin. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list > >>> > >> > >> > > I noticed your files are in / not /boot where mine are. Should I > > mv them? > > They're in / only on the boot partition ie they are in the root of > (hd0,0). > > If you are specifying your files as living in /boot on the boot > partition then this could stop your system booting fully. > Exactly, here is my #ls -l /boot -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1050830 Mar 30 2005 System.map-2.6.11-gentoo-r3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1050580 May 12 22:42 System.map-2.6.11-gentoo-r7 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1214233 Oct 11 00:54 System.map-2.6.13-gentoo-r3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1019913 Mar 5 2005 System.map-2.6.9-gentoo-r14 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1219082 Oct 11 17:54 System.map-2.6.13-gentoo-r3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Jan 11 2005 boot -> . drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Oct 11 17:27 grub -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 884138 Oct 11 17:57 initramfs-2.6.13-gentoo-r3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1044636 Mar 30 2005 initrd-2.6.11-gentoo-r3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1035787 May 12 22:45 initrd-2.6.11-gentoo-r7 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1055316 Mar 5 2005 initrd-2.6.9-gentoo-r14 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1748333 Mar 30 2005 kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1745664 May 12 22:42 kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r7 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1795423 Oct 11 17:54 kernel-2.6.13-gentoo-r3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1663290 Mar 5 2005 kernel-2.6.9-gentoo-r14 drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Jan 11 2005 lost+found -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list