No, I never use genkernel and I use modules only for things I need once a year (loop, ramdisk, ... ) or things which can't be built into the kernel.
Just now I tried the vanilla kernel. Let's see what the reboot brings up. Regards Frank On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 10:16 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 12:16:01 -0700 > Richard Fish wrote: > > > On 8/20/06, frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Has anyone an Idea? I don't have further :( > > > > Since the kernel is being found it is not a grub setup problem. > > > > Either: > > > > a. The filesystem drivers are not compiled into your kernel. You said > > you configured them...are they built in (=y) or as modules (=m)? > > > > b. You did not configure the drivers for your IDE chipset or IDE hard > > drive into the kernel. Here again, they should be "=y" in the .config > > file. > > > > The outputs of lspci and "grep '=[ym]' /usr/src/linux/.config" may be > > helpful for us to look at if you can't find the answer. > > Or he used genkernel but has not given grub the appropriate options for > initrd and ramfs. > > here is a sample from the install manual: > > title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.12-r10 > > root (hd0,0) > > kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r10 root=/dev/ram0 > init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda3 udev > > initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r10 > > (because of email wrapping I have put a space between separate lines, > the section starting "kernel" and ending "udev" is all one line.) > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1 > > -- > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
