Bug 58472 – After booting 2004.2 Universal the /proc/config not found

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Release Media

[Description Richard Scott 2004-07-26 15:32:25 UTC]

After booting the 2004.2 Universal CD there is no /proc/config as stated in the MOTD file.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.boot LiveCD 2004.2 Universal
2.ls /proc/config

Actual Results:  
ls: /proc/config: No such file or directory

Expected Results:  
/proc/config

[Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2004-07-27 04:47:45 UTC]

Hi... which kernel did you boot?  Did you look and see if it was /proc/config.gz?

[Comment 2 Richard Scott 2004-07-27 05:15:36 UTC]

Yep, I looked for /proc/config* and there's nothing there.

I've also noticed that it may be a feature of genkernel as the option to add the /proc/config no longer seems to be in the menu when configuring it.

I just booted the standard gentoo kernel from the cd, the 2.4.x one (sorry, can't remember the exact version numbers).

[Comment 3 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2004-07-27 07:12:23 UTC]

Bah... that patch is no longer included in the gentoo-sources patch set.  It is available when you boot with the "smp" kernel, which is 2.6.7-gentoo-r11.

[Comment 4 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2004-09-17 18:52:06 UTC]

Well... this is *sorta* being fixed... we just aren't going to use a 2.4 kernel on the next LiveCD, at all, so the kernel we do use will have /proc/config.gz