On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Alex Samad wrote:
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 09:51:12PM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote:
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Alex Samad wrote:
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 05:46:47PM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote:
[snip]
I was just seeing if I was missing something, it just seems like a pain
to hav
On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 17:34 -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> Anyone else with grub2 have any advice for Andrew? Is it normal for grub2
> to show a blank screen when booting a kernel?
When I upgraded to Grub2 last week I was getting a completely blank
screen during kernel boot. Eventually I fixed th
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 09:51:12PM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Alex Samad wrote:
>
> >On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 05:46:47PM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote:
[snip]
> >I was just seeing if I was missing something, it just seems like a pain
> >to have to recompile, although with all
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Alex Samad wrote:
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 05:46:47PM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote:
[snip]
Alex,
How does having an initrd prove more or less beneficial than not
having one?
IMO I like simplicity and a straight forward boot configuration:
1. /boot/kernel
2. /boot/S
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 08:39:07AM +0800, Niu Kun wrote:
> Alex Samad 写道:
> >Hi
> >
> >question question to both of you guys, any reason not to use a initrd ?
> >
> >doesn't it limit your options a lot, I can understand a monolithic
> >kernel - but a partial one ?
> >
> >Alex
> >
> >On Tue, Sep 29,
Alex Samad 写道:
Hi
question question to both of you guys, any reason not to use a initrd ?
doesn't it limit your options a lot, I can understand a monolithic
kernel - but a partial one ?
Alex
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 01:33:57PM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote:
I'm using grup-pc, which is grub2:
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 05:46:47PM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote:
>
>
[snip]
> >>>
> >>
> >>Alex,
> >>
> >>How does having an initrd prove more or less beneficial than not
> >>having one?
> >>
> >>IMO I like simplicity and a straight forward boot configuration:
> >>
> >>1. /boot/kernel
> >>2. /boo
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Alex Samad wrote:
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 05:36:38PM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote:
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Alex Samad wrote:
Hi
question question to both of you guys, any reason not to use a initrd ?
doesn't it limit your options a lot, I can understand a monolithic
kern
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 05:36:38PM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Alex Samad wrote:
>
> >Hi
> >
> >question question to both of you guys, any reason not to use a initrd ?
> >
> >doesn't it limit your options a lot, I can understand a monolithic
> >kernel - but a partial o
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 05:34:57PM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Anyone else with grub2 have any advice for Andrew? Is it normal for
> grub2 to show a blank screen when booting a kernel?
I think grub2 add quiet to the kernel options and thus blank screen,
edit the grub line on reboot and
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Alex Samad wrote:
Hi
question question to both of you guys, any reason not to use a initrd ?
doesn't it limit your options a lot, I can understand a monolithic
kernel - but a partial one ?
Alex
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 01:33:57PM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote:
I'm using g
Hi,
Anyone else with grub2 have any advice for Andrew? Is it normal for grub2
to show a blank screen when booting a kernel?
Justin.
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Andrew Perrin wrote:
I'm using grup-pc, which is grub2:
che:/home/aperrin# dpkg -l | grep grub
ii grub-common
Hi
question question to both of you guys, any reason not to use a initrd ?
doesn't it limit your options a lot, I can understand a monolithic
kernel - but a partial one ?
Alex
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 01:33:57PM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> I'm using grup-pc, which is grub2:
>
> che:/home/aper
I'm using grup-pc, which is grub2:
che:/home/aperrin# dpkg -l | grep grub
ii grub-common 1.97~beta3-1
GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (common files)
ii grub-pc 1.97~beta3-1
GRand Unified Bootloader, vers
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Andrew Perrin wrote:
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote:
Hi,
I have not used grub2, however- I will ask others on the list--
If you are compiling (most) everything into the image itself, you probably
don't need the insmod line below and I am not sure you want t
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote:
Hi,
I have not used grub2, however- I will ask others on the list--
If you are compiling (most) everything into the image itself, you probably
don't need the insmod line below and I am not sure you want the search
line either.
menuentry "Debian GNU
Hi,
I have not used grub2, however- I will ask others on the list--
If you are compiling (most) everything into the image itself, you probably
don't need the insmod line below and I am not sure you want the search
line either.
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, Linux 2.6.30 (recovery mode)" {
ins
Thanks for your continued interest. Answers below.
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Associate Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_
University of North Carolina
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Andrew Perrin wrote:
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Andrew Perrin wrote:
Greetings-
Using a .config file based on past kernels that have worked fine (posted
at http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu/stuff/config), I am trying to compile
kernel 2.6.30 for an amd64 machine and NOT using
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Andrew Perrin wrote:
Greetings-
Using a .config file based on past kernels that have worked fine (posted at
http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu/stuff/config), I am trying to compile kernel
2.6.30 for an amd64 machine and NOT using initrd. The essentials I know of
- sata, ext3
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Andrew Perrin wrote:
Greetings-
Using a .config file based on past kernels that have worked fine (posted at
http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu/stuff/config), I am trying to compile kernel
2.6.30 for an amd64 machine and NOT using initrd. The essentials I know of -
sata, ext3
Greetings-
Using a .config file based on past kernels that have worked fine (posted
at http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu/stuff/config), I am trying to compile
kernel 2.6.30 for an amd64 machine and NOT using initrd. The essentials I
know of - sata, ext3, e1000e - are built into the kernel, so I don
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