genkernel names it's initramfs like this: initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.36-hardened-r9 (using =sys-kernel/genkernel-3.4.16) while /etc/grub.d/10_linux only searches for: for i in "initrd.img-${version}" "initrd-${version}.img" \ "initrd-${version}" "initramfs-${version}.img" \ "initrd.img-${alt_version}" "initrd-${alt_version}.img" \ "initrd-${alt_version}" "initramfs-${alt_version}.img" \ "initramfs-genkernel-${version}" \ "initramfs-genkernel-${alt_version}" \ if test -e "${dirname}/${i}" ; then initrd="$i" break fi done where version and alt-version seems to not include the plaform (x86_64) When executing grub2-mkconfig, it fails to find the initramfs. I solved this problem with a simple additional x86_64 search pattern. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. compile a kernel, name it kernel-2.6.36-hardened-r9 2. run "genkernel initramfs" to create a ramfs 3. run grub2-mkconfig Actual Results: generated grub.cfg doesn't load the initramfs generated by genkernel Expected Results: generated grub.cfg should load the initramfs generated by genkernel
Hmm, i use genkernel and it gets found. grub.conf snip: set root='(arcarius-root)' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 3613ddf1-642e-4899-a69d-b0529c3d8466 echo 'Loading Linux x86_64-3.0.6-gentoo ...' linux /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86_64-3.0.6-gentoo root=/dev/mapper/arcarius-root ro rootfslinux=ext4 dolvm echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...' initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-3.0.6-gentoo I wonder why it gets found on my system, could you edit that /etc/grub.d/10_linux and echo content for the alt_version and version? Just modify it to do something like this on line 156+ echo "version: $version" >&2 echo "alt-version: $alt_version" >&2 If I do so these are result for my system: Found linux image: /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86_64-3.0.6-gentoo version: x86_64-3.0.6-gentoo alt-version: x86_64-3.0.6-gentoo Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-3.0.6-gentoo Found linux image: /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86_64-3.0.4-gentoo version: x86_64-3.0.4-gentoo alt-version: x86_64-3.0.4-gentoo Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-3.0.4-gentoo
duh, I compiled the kernel by hand and just had a different naming scheme than genkernel. Found linux image: /boot/kernel-2.6.36-hardened-r9 version: 2.6.36-hardened-r9 alt_version: 2.6.36-hardened-r9 which is of course right but doesn't include the platform.
