Re: [gentoo-dev] new gentoo-sources kernels (r5+)

[tprado <tprado@charter.net>]

I haven't had any problems with the gentoo kernel sources.  I have r9 on 
a couple machines.  r7 on another and a custom ACPI enabled kernel 
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/acpi) on my laptop based off the 
vanilla 2.4.19 (with 2.4.20-pre5 patched in).  

It sounds like you're probably making a simple mistake somewhere in your 
kernel upgrade somewhere.  

My usual kernel install procedure is:

#cd /usr/portage/sys-kernel/...
#ebuild <insert kernel ebuild version here> merge      (so it won't 
unmerge any older ones)
#cd /usr/src/linux-<version>
#cp /usr/src/linux/.config .
#make oldconfig
#make dep && make clean bzImage modules modules_install
#cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/gentoo<version>-<my-build#>.img
#cp System.map /boot/System.map-<version>-<my-build#>
#cd /usr/src
#rm linux
#ln -s linux-<version> linux
#cd /boot
#rm System.map
#ln -s System.map-<version>-<my-build#> System.map
edit /etc/lilo.conf for the new version (okay, I still use lilo :-)
#lilo
#shutdown -r now  

Wow, I actually do all that? I've never written it all down before :-)

I don't have /boot in it's own partition in my setup...

It's gonna be something silly, I'm sure :-)

Good luck,
Tom


Burton Samograd wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Is it just me, or are the new gentoo-sources unusable?  I just went
>through hell trying to get one of them to boot with absolutely no
>sucess.  I kept getting "Cannot find init errors" to "* respawning too
>quickly" to whatever you could think of.  I've never had this many
>problems with installing a kernel in my life, and I'm wondering if I'm
>doing something dreadfully wrong or if these new sources are just
>really unstable with all the patches installed.
>
>Just to let you know, i'm not experiencing newbie mistakes as i've
>been using linux for over 8 years and never had a kernel not boot
>unless it was something stupid on my part.  I did everything in my
>experience to get these darn things working and well...they just don't
>for me.  Anybody else having problems like this?
>
>Oh, and the linux-beta sources also won't boot either, but those are
>beta and i don't expect anything from them :)
>
>burton
>