Re: [gentoo-user] udev & recent genkernel + gentoo-sources

[Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org>]

Zac Medico wrote:

>A. Khattri wrote:
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>>On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Dmitry S. Makovey wrote:
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>>>Nope... might try it as well but my understanding that all genkernel
>>>does is automates compilation/installation and makes sure options for
>>>devfs or udev are on (depending on --[no]udev --[no]devfs flags).
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>>True, but a lot of people have had problems with genkernel that went away
>>when they did a manual kernel build instead.
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>In this case the problem is in the initrd so I can guarantee he won't have the same problem if he doesn't use root=/dev/ram0 with a broken initrd ;-).
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Not quite, its an initramfs.  Slightly different rules apply for
initramfs vs initrd, so you also have to remove the "initrd" line from
grub if you want to eliminate it.

-Richard

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