Kernel selection

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BillGatesOfHell · Post by **BillGatesOfHell** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 9:57 pm

Do i have an option of kernals to install or am i stuck with the one from genkernel?

This now the 5th time installing this damn OS and each time, despite having followed the install docs to the T, It always fails when i reboot.

Followed all the issues with the lilo, which i was using but am now going to try GRUB. Also, is there a definitive answer on the subject of having to use initrd=initramfs and root =/dev/hdb or root=/dev/ram0

Thanx.

Also, is it really neccessary to have a / and a /boot partition? couldnt i just have a / part. and make it a little easier?

opqdan · Post by **opqdan** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 10:16 pm

You can always build your own kernel. Just follow the steps in the install docs.

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cd /usr/src/linux
make menuconfig
<select what you want compiled into your kernel>
make && make modules_install
cp <location of bzImage> /boot/whatever-you-want-to-call-it
cp System.map /boot/System.map-whatever

Then you'll have to change your grub entry.

There are also many other kernels than the default gentoo-sources.
Here is a list of the ones in portage: http://www.gentoo-portage.com/sys-kernel

Simply emerge them, make a link

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rm /usr/src/linux
ln -s /usr/src/<name of kernel source dir> /usr/src/linux

And follow the steps above.

BillGatesOfHell · Post by **BillGatesOfHell** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 10:21 pm

thanx for the speedy reply, just REAllY frustrated at this point but i refuse to let this thing beat me.

Also, is it really neccessary to have a / and a /boot partition? couldnt i just have a / part. and make it a little easier?

My problem is one that has to do with the kernel panic, vfs not sync, unable to mount rfs on unknown block (1,0). everything ive read about this serves up no def. answer to the solution whis is why i mentioned the root=/dev/ram0 thing.

thanx

BillGatesOfHell · Post by **BillGatesOfHell** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 10:28 pm

uhoh, i just did mk2fs -j /dev/hda1 which is my winxp drive but i meant to do mk2fs -j /dev/hdb1 my other hd. tell me i didnt just screw up my ntfs part...

When i do fdisk -l it still shows it as NTFS, is it ok??

sw4qw · Post by **sw4qw** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 10:43 pm

Ha.

I did something similar once. I was setting setting up to use the windows bootloader to boot gentoo and instead of copying my boot sector to my fat partition that I created with the intent of using it as a tranfser point for files I wanted to access in both os's I accidentaly copied it to my windows partition. NOT GOOD.

So yeah, how did that work out for you?

BillGatesOfHell · Post by **BillGatesOfHell** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 10:59 pm

frig, not sure yet still installing gentoo, but my fdisk -l still says NTFS so...