The handbook says that to copy over the Installation CD kernel config, I can do this: (Only do this if you are going to configure a 2.6 kernel) # zcat /proc/config.gz > /usr/share/genkernel/x86/kernel-config-2.6 However, since I am installing Gentoo from an existing Mandriva 2005 installation, that command will be copying the Mandriva kernel's config, not the installation CD's kernel's config. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Handbook talks about official Gentoo Installation CDs, not third-party media.
As stated in comment #1, the document that you linked assumes (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=2) that you are installing from Gentoo installation CD, so I can
As stated in comment #1, the document that you linked assumes (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=2) that you are installing from Gentoo installation CD, so I can´t see why this should be a bug.
I am installing from official media. I am just not booting from that media. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml describes how it is possible to install Gentoo from an existing Linux distribution (see 6. Installing Gentoo from an existing Linux distribution). The end of that page says "Once you have resized, boot back into your old linux as described. Then go to The Gentoo Handbook: Preparing the Disks and follow the instructions." and links back to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=4.
(In reply to comment #3) > I am installing from official media. I am just not booting from that media. For the purpose of my sentence, "installation media" is the thing which will provide you the rootfs. > The end of that page says "Once you have resized, boot back into your old linux > as described. Then go to The Gentoo Handbook: Preparing the Disks and follow the > instructions." and links back to > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=4. So the bug is in altinstall.xml, not in the Handbook, please change it. altinstall should note that the installation process might be affected by media limitations.
@Comment #3: No, you are not installing from Gentoo media, you are installing from Mandriva chroot, so it seems pretty obvious to everyone that the handbook section you are talking about is then irrelevant. Also its heading states "Copying over the Installation CD kernel config" pretty much suggests that it
@Comment #3: No, you are not installing from Gentoo media, you are installing from Mandriva chroot, so it seems pretty obvious to everyone that the handbook section you are talking about is then irrelevant. Also its heading states "Copying over the Installation CD kernel config" pretty much suggests that it´s irrelevant in your case - since you are not running installation CD kernel. So - I am missing what fix to the handbook are you suggesting... @Comment #4: No, there is no real bug in altinstall.xml, it just assumes employing common sense when you are installing Gentoo using an alternative install method.
(In reply to comment #5) > @Comment #4: No, there is no real bug in altinstall.xml, it just assumes > employing common sense when you are installing Gentoo using an alternative > install method. Well, I think it's not a big problem to add one single <note> stating that you can expect some things work differently while installing from another media. I'll suggest marking this a dupe of bug 93780 as they are very similar. I'd think that this one deserves INVALID, though, in contrast to 93780 which should be fixed by the addition of the small <note>. :-)
Well, this bug is really INVALID. Noone can reasonably suppose that he/she will be able to zcat actual config of Gentoo kernel from /proc if he/she is running install under Mandriva or whatever other Linux distribution...
> Well, this bug is really INVALID. Noone can reasonably suppose that he/she > will be able to zcat actual config of Gentoo kernel from /proc if he/she is > running install under Mandriva or whatever other Linux distribution... And yet the handbook tells me that I can. *That* is the bug! Is it OK to copy the kernel config I use in Mandriva and use the same when compiling the gentoo kernel? I don't know - but the handbook should make it clear where I should copy the kernel config from in the event that I'm currently running a different distribution. If you really don't support installing gentoo while running a different distribution, the handbook shouldn't claim that you do.
That handbook is referenced in alternative install guide because it is 99% valid for alternative install as well and writing another full handbook would be just a terrible waste of time and resources. And as such it should not - IMNSHO - be cluttered by irrelevant remarks like that copying .config from Mandriva
That handbook is referenced in alternative install guide because it is 99% valid for alternative install as well and writing another full handbook would be just a terrible waste of time and resources. And as such it should not - IMNSHO - be cluttered by irrelevant remarks like that copying .config from Mandriva´s kernel won´t be the best idea in the universe. If there is an omission somewhere, then it is not in Gentoo handbook, but in Gentoo Alternative Installation Guide... Changing the component accordingly. Please put some note there and close this "bug"...
what does it matter if you're taking the config from a Mandriva kernel ? it will list feature that work since you managed to boot the kernel
That's what I was thinking. I've spent a few months getting the kernel config set up just right on this box for Mandrake, so maybe it would be OK to copy them when recompiling for gentoo. Then again, maybe it wouldn't, due to some special needs of the gentoo system. That's something that I (as a gentoo newbie) can't be expected to know, and something which I don't think would be out of place in an installation handbook. For some reason the handbook assumes that I've booted from the install CD rather than into an environment which I know works on my hardware. In the end I wasn't able to create a kernel that did anything other than panic as soon as I attempted to boot into it, whether I used my old Mandrake config or the config from the kernel on the installation CD, so I gave up. Thanks anyway - maybe I'll try gentoo again in a year or two and see if things are any clearer. :)
