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 4.50) id 1EcZeN-0004Rn-TW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 02:37:24 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAH2aSXX022015; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 02:36:28 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAH2WafI011607 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 02:32:37 GMT Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EcZZk-0007xr-7h for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 02:32:36 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EcZYR-0004SK-8O for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 03:31:15 +0100 Received: from adsl-68-74-116-131.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net ([68.74.116.131]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 03:31:15 +0100 Received: from reader by adsl-68-74-116-131.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 03:31:15 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Harry Putnam Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel build no update grub Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 20:29:54 -0600 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87sltwf1lp.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <8764qsgrh7.fsf@newsguy.com> <1132185718.12650.25.camel@orpheus> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-68-74-116-131.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:FugpD59ufOi6bEOSVGQAfqODI6g= Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 0021aa20-52a8-4570-b52b-bf7016098502 X-Archives-Hash: 95bc64785b51e5425bf921ef282c812e Iain Buchanan writes: > On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 16:25 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Updating the kernel today, I referenced that piece of the >> documentation and borrowed this command from it: >> >> genkernel --bootloader=grub all > > I've never trusted it... This was my first time trying it. >>>From what you've posted, I think your grub.conf should look something > like this (I don't split the lines, so this should be 4 lines only > including the title): > > title Gentoo 2.6.15_rc1 > root (hd0,0) > kernel /kernel-2.6.14-gentoo-r2 root=/dev/ram0 real_root=/dev/hda5 video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,1152x864-24@70 CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 > initrd /initramfs-2.6.12-gentoo-r9 I'm trying it that way now. I've set a few other resolutions in there to test but the one I posted has been working ok (1152x864-24@70). How can I tell which ones will work in advance? Someone posted a command to display some setting from /proc: cat /proc/fb0/modes That doesn't show the one I've been using and I know it works so that bunch must not be very complete. But first lets see if the basic stuff works... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list