From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JevtY-0004J1-Nm for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:28:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EDC86E0A02; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:28:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out3.smtp.messagingengine.com (out3.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.27]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C85D7E0A02 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:28:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 375D3E2A71; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:28:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:28:03 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: XZdHytruceRSqasa5913sqyk2olPRTlTcXL3eMHMSu8q 1206638882 Received: from [10.129.146.71] (unknown [212.23.103.36]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id ACB1A308A8 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:28:01 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Creating an initrd for loading... From: Florian Philipp To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <47EBCCC8.20404@yahoo.com> References: <47EBCCC8.20404@yahoo.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-aKjRoRUugzrOiK6Sp8u/" Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:27:38 +0100 Message-Id: <1206638858.30987.87.camel@NOTE_GENTOO64.PHHEIMNETZ> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 X-Archives-Salt: 9d7c7416-ee0d-4056-b092-81eff50455d4 X-Archives-Hash: baca3356ae224b10a9388f3542594307 --=-aKjRoRUugzrOiK6Sp8u/ Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 12:35 -0400, Benjamen R. Meyer wrote: > I'm working on a Sparc system (SunBlade 2000 Desktop Server) that needs=20 > an initrd image to load (due to having a QLA 2200 SCSI controller); but=20 > I am having some trouble with the initrd image. >=20 > (I had tried the gentoo-sparc list, but it is slow - I'm not getting=20 > responses - and I need to finish this server by Friday. And the issue=20 > right now is solely the initrd image.) >=20 > The problem I am having is that the kernel is complaining about not=20 > having the initrd image. I have SILO (sparc equiv of LILO) installed,=20 > and have told it of the initrd image, but the kernel doesn't seem to=20 > find it. (SILO reports all is well, so I can only assume it is finding=20 > the initrd image without a problem.) >=20 > My main question comes down to this: I am using the 'genkernel' package=20 > to build & install the kernel and initrd image. Both show up in /boot.=20 > How much can I rely on genkernel to build a valid initrd image? Try "genkernel menuconfig all" to check for a valid kernel config before genkernel builds it. Refer to genkernel's man-page for further options. > How can=20 > I mount the initrd image to verify it has the modules, etc. and verify=20 > it is a valid image? >=20 There is a wiki-entry about it: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Initramfs Hope this helps. --=-aKjRoRUugzrOiK6Sp8u/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBH69kKqs4uOUlOuU8RArg1AJ0cM0FAz5SdBQy/BH42XgXAbHgLzgCeKnVZ uHOX7jbN93qRs94hCoM2Pc8= =KIXy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-aKjRoRUugzrOiK6Sp8u/-- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list