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 1QRUcS-0004p3-Ct for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 31 May 2011 19:28:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 798681C041; Tue, 31 May 2011 19:27:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BC6A1C041 for ; Tue, 31 May 2011 19:27:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyi11 with SMTP id 11so4879471wyi.40 for ; Tue, 31 May 2011 12:27:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent :references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=8heDsCgCbm8FU5AJr/ZlXprkgFz8u3n0jGXW5YMrdgI=; b=BjAdoikARjuVngjKuJkIb/PbuSw1lurUtlFDgZMKAufHORlFL5Tf7bPEoPPleR8uaU 5dVA3f7T1ET3KMvA3nFhyTKek2WHulZo3/NPPspVNZzs9BYh44ANYr01NfvjLWPtufQf FWYbHm3XdeIm8GS560TbYZm6ESphbHERPASn0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=KeY0kwyzNHaw1o2nNYBBM1Rm27c87BdHIX/NwaEzpjwMg7loni31y82BIlbSm/FX2O VQxd16bA0uJqJ3C3MMbeQ0TMoYfOryu4aSrnJ5oBg+NTeDo/sBgYpQjGdrB9Q8ejtX9a 8DVqbHZUfMnL9ilfvZHUOlbB+4aOAbhkfVPTs= Received: by 10.216.0.206 with SMTP id 56mr3862533web.112.1306870036194; Tue, 31 May 2011 12:27:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 74sm225820wem.17.2011.05.31.12.27.14 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 31 May 2011 12:27:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a gentoo guest on virtualbox? Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 20:27:42 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.38-gentoo-r6; KDE/4.6.2; x86_64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: 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: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3378339.ucq0drQy1g"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201105312027.53328.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 43f411b73f1324617d06182ea70f1ecd --nextPart3378339.ucq0drQy1g Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tuesday 31 May 2011 08:07:24 Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 13:56, Alan McKinnon =20 wrote: > > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 3:14 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > >> Meh, I clicked 'Send' too fast. > >>=20 > >> *My* suggested solution: > >>=20 > >> Generate an initramfs containing udev. The hands-down easiest way is > >> using genkernel's 'only create an initramfs' switch (sorry I forgot > >> what exactly). > >=20 > > good god no, please, anything but genkernel. > >=20 > > That thing is an attempt to emulate binary distros which require an > > initramfs to work properly (for any sane definition of "work") as the > > person building the installer has no idea what hardware the user will > > have. In Gentoo the user knows exactly what they have so there's no > > need for a gigantic hardware-detecting workaround at boot time. > >=20 > >> This needs to be done exactly once throughout the life of your VM. > >>=20 > >> (To the herd of Gentoo graybeards, feel free to CMIIW) > >=20 > > Or wait a few days for vapier's (posting under his other name of > > spanky) sane advice to be implemented. His proposal is the sole voice > > of reason in that bug thread.... >=20 > True. But I was having problem installing 2 servers on top of XenServer. >=20 > So I cheated and ran 'genkernel initramfs' exactly once. At least I > got myself a booting system. :-) >=20 > When SpanKY's makedev gets stabilized and pushed to baselayout, I'll > then happily ditch the genkernel cheat for my next VMs :-) Are you sure that manually creating /dev/console and /dev/null isn't all th= at=20 is required? The rest of the devices will be created by udev when it runs = at=20 boot time. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart3378339.ucq0drQy1g Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk3lQTkACgkQVTDTR3kpaLacIgCfXRtmFOxwWRkW6Uu3oDQ+dlMl HEAAn20/K9J9Jz4UJKoxft3K1C4ghMIM =6rNH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3378339.ucq0drQy1g--