From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OQmIk-00058Q-6C for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:04:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5A7CFE0C07 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:04:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.virtyou.com (mx.virtyou.com [94.23.166.77]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D32EE0B92 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:26:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from weird.localnet (p4FF040A6.dip.t-dialin.net [79.240.64.166]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx.virtyou.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 38BA14A800C for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:26:56 +0200 (CEST) From: Alex Schuster To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Boot hangs after install, no error Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:26:53 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.3 (Linux/2.6.33-tuxonice-r2; KDE/4.4.4; x86_64; ; ) References: <4C1958B9.4000903@gmail.com> <4C1F7817.7020208@gmail.com> <4C1FA976.4020804@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4C1FA976.4020804@gmail.com> 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 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201006212026.54478.wonko@wonkology.org> X-Archives-Salt: de611b2b-3fad-48eb-82ff-9365ccf8d409 X-Archives-Hash: 49ecc42dddd247c887c45f3d00b0bf54 Dale writes: > I don't use genkernel anymore. I just roll my own. That way, I know > what is in there and what is not. Then if something doesn't work, I > know if it is the kernel or something else. With genkernel, you won't > have a clue what it is since you don't know much if anything about the > kernel and how it is configured. That's not necessarily true. When I create a new kernel, I copy /usr/src/linux/.config into the new kernel directory, make oldconfig and menuconfig just as I like my kernel to be, and recreate the linux symlink to the new kernel directory. Then I do a genkernel --install --lvm --luks all && emerge -a @module-rebuild, and am done. I never noticed genkernel changing anything in my configuration, .config, /proc/config.gz and the stuff in /etc/kernels/ are identical. Until not long ago, I did not even know that genkernel was intended to create a working kernel from scratch. Wonko