On Saturday 26 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I was just starting to think you might be friend material. Then you
> > go and mention me and Vista in a positive sense in the same
> > sentence. I shall now have to send some of the lads around to
Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Friday 25 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> So, I'm thinking it probably won't do any real good to monkey around
>> with the kernel either, if the initramfs thing isn't the problem them
>> it seems likely to be a vista problem.
>
> The kernel is
Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Saturday 26 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> This is turning into a big time sink that I don't really have so I'll
>> probably just use cygwin stuff to get some unix tools onto vista.
>>
>> But first, are you running gentoo in a vmware on vista
On Saturday 26 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This is turning into a big time sink that I don't really have so I'll
> probably just use cygwin stuff to get some unix tools onto vista.
>
> But first, are you running gentoo in a vmware on vista?
I was just starting to think you might be frie
Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The kernel is exactly where you should be monkeying. I reckon you have a
> driver you need compiled in and it's a module because of the make
> allconfig.
I went thru the makeconfig carefully. Even disallowing an early item
allowing intramfs boot, bu
On Friday 25 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> So, I'm thinking it probably won't do any real good to monkey around
> with the kernel either, if the initramfs thing isn't the problem them
> it seems likely to be a vista problem.
The kernel is exactly where you should be monkeying. I reckon yo
Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Something seems to have changed with 2.6.25, more so than normal for new
> versions. For instance, b43 refuses point blank to work here or do
> anything remotely useful like a nice driver should. b43legacy doesn't
> work either. They both work with ea
On Friday 25 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Do you want to use an initrd, or due the highly customized thing
> > and dispense with it?
>
> OK, let me explain a bit. I started compiling a kernel for this
> install and somehow missed something i
Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Aah, now I see. It's one of two things, and neither is your
> grub.conf. That's the kernel spitting that garbage at you, so your
> grub.conf is just fine. You have either:
>
> 1. Compiled in the need for an initrd and have not supplied one, or
On 4/24/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
[...]
> In the screen shot provided note that it appears grub is expecting an
> intramfs and only lists those types of devices, rejecting both
> (hd0,0) and /dev/sda3.
>
> http://www.jtan.com/~re
On Thursday 24 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> kernel /kernel-2.6.25-r1 root=(hd0)/sda3
> >>
> >> Fails
> >
> > Won't work. (hd0) is a grub thing. You need a /dev/sda3 or similar
> > in there
>
> I think you are wrong about that. But just a
Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thursday 24 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> So assuming I've made some mistake in grub.conf I try to boot from
>> grub command line.
>>
>> root = (hd0,0) (which is /dev/sda1 in linux terms)
>>
>> kernel /kernel-2.6.25-r1
>
> Nope. Kern
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