Hi Alan, Thanks for the reply.

First attempt at install was using emerge. This installs version 1.17.1.
This didn't work, so I removed it, and installed version 2.00 from Git, in
an attempt to fix the problem.

BOTH produce the same error - unable to find a kernel due to the naming
issue described previously.
So firstly I need to know whether Genkernel is incorrectly naming the
kernel, or whether Rear is looking for the wrong name.

Cheers,
Phil

On 6 March 2017 at 22:25, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 06/03/2017 23:55, White, Phil wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm not sure if this needs submitting as a bug, or if I just need a
> > little help in configuring...
> >
> > I have set up a new install of Gentoo. I use genkernel to create my
> > kernel and initrd.
> > The resulting /boot directory gives:
> >   kernel-genkernel-x86-4.9.6-gentoo-r1
> >
> > My chost is i686-pc-linux-gnu.
> >
> > Now, I also have installed rear (relax-and-recover) v2, from git
> > (app-backup/rear is 1.17.1)
> >
> > Problem: rear is looking for a kernel, and it expects it to be named:
> >   kernel-genkernel-i686-4.9.6-gentoo-r1
> > Since the name doesn't match, it bails out with an error. (This only
> > fails with my i686 machine. Running the same configuration on a 64-bit
> > machine works fine)
> >
> > Question: How am I going to fix this? I don't want to hard code anything
> > in the config file, as this will break when I update the kernel... Is
> > this a 'bug'?
>
>
> Please clarify what version of rear has this problem, and how you
> installed it.
>
> Either way, from the problem description one can see that rear needs
> patching, however:
>
> If it was installed by ortage from an ebuild, then you have a bug to be
> reported to b.g.o.
>
> If you installed from git outside of portage, the you get to patch rear
> yourself
>
> Or, perhaps a third option. Does rear have a config file where you can
> define the naming template for the kernel used? (I don't use rear and
> can't be bothered googling it, the idea just occurred to me)
>
>
> --
> Alan McKinnon
> alan.mckin...@gmail.com
>
>
>

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