Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

["Lord Sauron" <lordsauronthegreat@gmail.com>]

Okay, here's where I've isolated the problem to.  This might be a
rather lengthy explanation, so make sure you have about 15 minutes on
your hands before diving in.  However, the explanation shouldn't take
long - I've never actually compiled/installed/used a kernel before. 
Okay, enough apologising in advance: down to business.

I know that it correctly compiles the kernel.  I put a new name for
the new kernel (test1) to try and ID it as it floats about all the
other kernels I'm too scared to delete.

# make install

Sticks it into /boot.  /boot now reads

System.map                            config.old
System.map-2.6.15-gentoo-r1           grub
System.map-2.6.15-gentoo-r1.old       initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5
System.map-2.6.15-gentoo-r1test1      kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5
System.map-2.6.15-gentoo-r1test1.old  lost+found
System.map.old                        vmlinuz
boot                                  vmlinuz-2.6.15-gentoo-r1
config                                vmlinuz-2.6.15-gentoo-r1.old
config-2.6.15-gentoo-r1               vmlinuz-2.6.15-gentoo-r1test1
config-2.6.15-gentoo-r1.old           vmlinuz-2.6.15-gentoo-r1test1.old
config-2.6.15-gentoo-r1test1          vmlinuz.old
config-2.6.15-gentoo-r1test1.old

Not terribly exciting.  However, I went to /boot/grub/menu.lst and it
reads as such:

localhost boot # cat ./grub/menu.lst
default 0
timeout 7
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo Linux
root (hd0,0)
kernel  /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0
init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda3
initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5

The most concerning part is the last three lines.  For any kernel, it
appears to demand the kernel itself.  If you'll refer back to # ls
/boot then you'll notice that kernel-2.6.15-gentoo-r1test1 isn't
there.  Nor is the initrd.  I don't know where they might be, or if
they're not there then how to generate them.

If I can find out those two things then I should be able to test my
new kernel and see if it actually worked.

On 3/28/06, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:51:11 +0200, Bo Andresen wrote:
>
> > > Sorry, what does YMMV mean?
> >
> > Those are the resources that I use for that kind of questions:
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YMMV
> > http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ymmv
>
> You can also emerge wtf.

I assume wtf will tell me what wtf stands for...  is the last letter
representative of a forbidden word, by any chance?

> $ wtf ymmv
> YMMV: your mileage may vary
>
>
> --
> Neil Bothwick
>
> Interchangeable parts aren't.

What was your first clue?

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