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* [gentoo-user] genkernel on sparc won't unmount initrd
@ 2005-09-22 22:13 Hani Duwaik
  2005-09-23  1:37 ` Ciaran McCreesh
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Hani Duwaik @ 2005-09-22 22:13 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

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I've installed gentoo on an old Ultra 10. I installed the standard
'sparc-sources' kernel (2.4.31) and tried to manually configure it, but the
kernel kept crashing on boot. So I installed genkernel and copied the config
file from the livecd.

FYI: The Ultra 10 uses IDE harddrives, so the root/boot partition is at
/dev/hda1.

When I reboot, ramdisk kernel loads up but can't find /dev/hda ... instead,
I can point it to '/dev/discs/disc0/part1' and it will continue booting
(mounting everything as /dev/hdax .., including root). However, during the
'hand-off' (for lack of a better word) to the real kernel, the system
complains that it can't umount '/tmp/.initrd/dev' and, instead, leaves it
mounted even after the system comes up.

To further complicate things, I can't even umount it (the /tmp/.initrd/xx
mounts) even after the system is up and running.

So far, it doesn't seem to be interferring with the function of the system,
but I don't get the impression that this is a good thing and would like to
know what I've done wrong.

I'm not sure if this is an issue with genkernel, silo (the sparc version of
lilo), bad choices on my end in configuring the kernel or a mixture of all
three.

Does anyone know why the tmp kernel (the ramdisk kernel) could not see
'/dev/hda' but rather '/dev/discs/disc0/xxx' until after the real kernel is
loaded?

TIA,

-Hani

PS: I'll eventually go back to a manually created kernel, but I'd still like
to know what I missed in regards to the genkernel setup.

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* Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel on sparc won't unmount initrd
  2005-09-22 22:13 [gentoo-user] genkernel on sparc won't unmount initrd Hani Duwaik
@ 2005-09-23  1:37 ` Ciaran McCreesh
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Ciaran McCreesh @ 2005-09-23  1:37 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

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On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:13:38 -0600 Hani Duwaik <kiawud@gmail.com> wrote:
| I've installed gentoo on an old Ultra 10. I installed the standard
| 'sparc-sources' kernel (2.4.31) and tried to manually configure it,
| but the kernel kept crashing on boot. So I installed genkernel and
| copied the config file from the livecd.

Genkernel on sparc is only supported for the purposes of livecd
creation. Don't use it.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron)
Mail            : ciaranm at gentoo.org
Web             : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm


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