BRM wrote:
----- Original Message ----
From: Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com>
2009/12/2 BRM <bm_witn...@yahoo.com>:
I'm still working to get my laptop back up; I have one more thing to try.
Presently, I am having a problem with the compiling a 2.6.30-gentoo-r8 kernel
that actually works. It might be a processor issue - linux reports it as a
Pentium M which is what I have selected during 'make menuconfig', but the the
grub keeps reporting that it is not a recognized format or something to that
effect, so it won't load it.
Questions:
1) I am using the Gentoo 2007.0 LiveCD to boot with, then chroot'ing into my
installation to build the kernel. I shouldn't need a newer LiveCD, correct?
Correct as long as it recognise your hardware.
Thanks.
2) Grub doesn't need to be re-run (e.g. running the grub prompt and going
through the install procedure) after changes to the menu file, correct?
Correct, assuming you have installed GRUB correctly in the first instance
Thanks
- which makes me ask:
What is your exact error message?
I'll post that tonight.
----- Original Message ----
From: Marcus Wanner <marc...@cox.net>
I got that error when I copied the wrong kernel image to /boot, make
sure you are copying the one detailed in the gentoo handbook (chapter 7, I think).
The last kernel I copied in I copied the file specified by the kernel's README:
arch/<arch>/boot/bzImage - <arch> being x86.
Though according to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kernel-config.xml it should be
arch/i386/boot/bzImage...not sure which is right off hand.
Will check into it tonight.
Ben
This may not be the problem but I ran into this a while back. Some
times when I build a kernel, the bzImage in */i386/boot is actually a
link, not the bzImage itself. Naturally copying a link will not boot,
especially if it breaks the link or /usr is on a separate partition and
not mounted yet.
I ran into this twice with two different kernels. I can't recall the
version tho. You may want to check that before you copy the bzImage
over, just to make sure it is a file and not a link.
Oh, don't forget to mount /boot too. Very common thing to forget.
Dale
:-) :-)
