Summary: | genkernel gen_initramfs.sh issue | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Hosted Projects | Reporter: | Gregory Bleiker <gregory> |
Component: | genkernel | Assignee: | Gentoo Genkernel Maintainers <genkernel> |
Status: | RESOLVED NEEDINFO | ||
Severity: | normal | ||
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Gregory Bleiker
2006-05-29 05:41:26 UTC
It definitely works, seeing as how all of the release media are built with it. Basically, that isn't your problem. Your problem lies elsewhere. Also, the kernel has special CPIO handling for the initramfs. Because of how we are building our initramfs, you cannot use normal cpio commands to list the contents. Instead, you have to split the archive into each individual component, then uncompress the gzipped portions, then run cpio on each. Gotta love kernel internals, huh? Anyway, the problem isn't with how we create the initramfs. It seems instead like you have something missing which is causing the error. > however, the produced initramfs thingie does not boot.
Want to explain that in a bit more detail? What kernel are you using, for example? Does it not boot at all or does it hang, OOPS, or etc.?
I cannot reproduce this problem with the information given. Feel free to REOPEN this bug with the information requested by Tim. Thanks |