From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E0oMp-0003Mf-0r for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 22:39:11 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j74MbXXq011237; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 22:37:33 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.196]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j74MXqUC021986 for ; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 22:33:52 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id x7so320326nzc for ; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 15:34:37 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=f4G3Z0IJo1Jf3FKUKuwndVJgen5kfJyPfcLgVhFcYN5evyz6dMm83NKgSsmcChOzXREoraCQHwh3f6kS6+GduGf+SYwH5rnA+c9YFWfalQLt7zvxug3aw9whJpggDdpOUOQiGS8alCT45S65J15kyymptq3acqVbcA33nctd/lo= Received: by 10.37.15.71 with SMTP id s71mr915603nzi; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 15:34:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.10? ([24.30.171.44]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 8sm1322496nzn.2005.08.04.15.34.36; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 15:34:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <42F29835.7050009@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 15:35:33 -0700 From: Zac Medico User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050724) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problems installing References: <42F287FB.8060200@btopenworld.com> <342e10905080414414b9e896b@mail.gmail.com> <200508041708.13248.yeahsowhat@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200508041708.13248.yeahsowhat@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0133b7fb-817d-4ac2-b2b7-7b1eeba41461 X-Archives-Hash: fb7aa76987d238ac62deb13a68c640c8 Chris Cox wrote: > On Thursday 04 August 2005 04:41 pm, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > >>Well, if you use genkernel, it should automatically place the initrd >>and the kernel image at your /boot (at least it does for me). Maybe >>check your genkernel command to compile the kernel. >> > > > Whats wrong with compiling a kernel the normal way ? > > emerge gentoo-sources (or whatever flavor you prefer) > cd /usr/src/linux && zcat /proc/config.gz >.config > make oldconfig > make menuconfig > * tweak it to your liking > make install modules modules_install > update your boot loader > umount /boot > exit chroot > reboot > > Isn't that covered in the Install guide ? > No on said anything was wrong with with doing it the normal way. ;-) In fact, genkernel is not really different from "the normal way". It runs basically the same commands that you would run by hand. Personally, I use it to generate my initramfs. I'm fully awary that genkernel can be a needless complication for n00bs. Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list