Bug 23431 – genkernel hangs on initrd creation

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Luke-Jr 2003-06-24 21:23:51 UTC]

genkernel hangs while creating initrd. if further details are neccesary, try it locally. It 
seems to happen on every system, at the moment. If it doesn't, let me know and I'll 
get details. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 humillo 2003-07-15 07:36:24 UTC]

I believe you need to set BOOT_SPLASH_INITRD to something in the file /etc/kernels/settings.

I chose to install bootsplash (emerge bootsplash) and used the following:
BOOT_SPLASH_INITRD="/usr/share/bootsplash/initrd-1280x1024"

I do agree that some kind of error checking would be nice here.

[Comment 2 Bob Johnson (RETIRED) 2003-07-15 16:52:16 UTC]

luke, i cannot reproduce this, and others cant either. 
Youll need to send me the command your using. 
Also docs are being written now. 

[Comment 3 Luke-Jr 2003-07-15 18:59:58 UTC]

It's probably the variable humillo suggested. I had no idea I had to set one. 

[Comment 4 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) 2003-10-22 20:42:05 UTC]

it was probably the variable - if you check /var/log/genkernel.log, you will
see if our suspicions are true. The version in CVS handles the errors correctly,
so the next release will fix this.

[Comment 5 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) 2003-10-22 20:42:31 UTC]

closing, since this problem should be fixed in cvs