Bug 38640

Summary:	initrd generated during gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r5 kernel compilation fails at boot time
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	bdumitriu
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Brad House <brad>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	releng
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Description bdumitriu 2004-01-18 13:13:40 UTC

I emerged the latest version of genkernel (3.0.1beta6) and compiled the gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r5 kernel. I made the necessary changes to the grub configuration file and, when I rebooted I got this mesage:

Gentoo initrd startup
[...]
Step 4 [...]
Root block device unspecified or not detected.
Please specify a device to boot, or "shell" for shell.

If I type /dev/hda5 (the device on which the kernel lies) all goes well, but this is a rather annonying thing to do everytime.

If I replace initrd-2.4.22-r5 with initrd-2.4.22-r4 (the latter generated using genkernel 1.8) all goes well and my kernel-24.22-r5 boots flawlessly.

I have tried to recompile about 4 times and the situation doesn't change.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. compile gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r5 with genkernel-3.0.1beta6
2. modify grub config file to use the new kernel/initrd pair
3. reboot and see what happens

Actual Results:  
I got the following message during the boot process:

Gentoo initrd startup
[...]
Step 4 [...]
Root block device unspecified or not detected.
Please specify a device to boot, or "shell" for shell.

Expected Results:  
Boot without problems.

Comment 1 Brad House 2004-01-18 13:36:03 UTC

RTFM
/usr/share/genkernel/README

genkernel usage has changed (esp boot params)