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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a gentoo guest on virtualbox?
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 20:27:42 +0100
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On Tuesday 31 May 2011 08:07:24 Pandu Poluan wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 13:56, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>=20
wrote:
> > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 3:14 AM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info> 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
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