From: Wol <antlists@youngman.org.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Why has genkernel initramfs changed behaviour!?
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2021 23:15:30 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e99d0d98-125b-e671-8189-2cbccbed7043@youngman.org.uk> (raw)
Just filed bug 824282.
In the past, I've always done "make kernel, make kernel_modules, make
install, make modules_install, genkernel initramfs ...".
This worked fine, and I then ran grub-mkconfig, sorted out grub.cfg, and
all was well.
My new setup, I have a /boot WHICH I WANT TO SORT OUT MYSELF! I got
thoroughly confused because genkernel was finding /boot in fstab,
mounting it by default, and sticking the initramfs there. So of course,
grub-mkconfig screwed up because the kernel was in the /boot directory,
but the initramfs was in the /boot partition!
So I told genkernel not to mount the boot partition ...
WAH WAH WAH FATAL ERROR YOU WON'T LET ME MOUNT BOOT SULK SULK SULK.
If I tell it not to mount boot then that's my lookout, not for genconfig
to nanny me and sulk!
And it gets worse. I've always done "make modules_install, genkernel
initramfs". Which now seems to be an unsupported option. genkernel is
now looking in /var/tmp/genkernel/... for the modules - no surprise the
modules aren't there! The error says "did you forget to compile the
kernel" - no I didn't - it is compiled, the modules are installed, I
just didn't use genkernel to do it.
Why oh why does everything change ... for the worse ... now let's see if
allowing it to mount the boot partition makes it work properly ...
and allowing it to mount boot made everything work perfectly afaict ...
what a mess ...
Cheers,
Wol
next reply other threads:[~2021-11-17 23:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-17 23:15 Wol [this message]
2021-11-17 23:24 ` [gentoo-user] Why has genkernel initramfs changed behaviour!? Jack
2021-11-17 23:52 ` William Kenworthy
2021-11-18 8:12 ` J. Roeleveld
2021-11-18 10:31 ` Neil Bothwick
2021-11-18 11:05 ` J. Roeleveld
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