From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=DMARC_MISSING,FREEMAIL_FROM, MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from mx09.cluster1.charter.net (dc-mx09.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.8.19]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C189AC3AC for ; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 22:56:11 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [24.216.167.181] (HELO charter.net) by mx09.cluster1.charter.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5.9) with ESMTP id 4861000; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 23:56:10 -0400 Message-ID: <3D87F8C9.5070003@charter.net> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 23:53:45 -0400 From: tprado User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020606 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Burton Samograd Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] new gentoo-sources kernels (r5+) References: <20020918032411.GK4904@kruhft.dyndns.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: 0c603c29-5c37-4ed2-b883-233b63c03ed5 X-Archives-Hash: ce627f3c73d93783ffb989902b11247e 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 merge (so it won't unmerge any older ones) #cd /usr/src/linux- #cp /usr/src/linux/.config . #make oldconfig #make dep && make clean bzImage modules modules_install #cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/gentoo-.img #cp System.map /boot/System.map-- #cd /usr/src #rm linux #ln -s linux- linux #cd /boot #rm System.map #ln -s System.map-- 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 >