Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-15 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Dale wrote: >> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> Mick wrote: On Thursday 11 December 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Clone that config: > >make cloneconfig How does this compare to make oldconfig? >>> It doesn't, because it doesn't even exist.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-15 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Mick wrote: >> On Thursday 11 December 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> >>> Clone that config: >>> >>>make cloneconfig >> >> How does this compare to make oldconfig? > > It doesn't, because it doesn't even exist. I meant "oldconfig" here :P > > (openSUSE has a clone

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-15 Thread Mick
On Thursday 11 December 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Clone that config: > >make cloneconfig How does this compare to make oldconfig? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-12 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
On Saturday 13 December 2008 00:54:27 Harry Putnam wrote: > Thanks for your patience Dirk. You're welcome. Bye... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-12 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
On Thursday 11 December 2008 23:59:46 Harry Putnam wrote: > > Could please post the kernels .config (or /proc/config) and lspci > > output from the original, working setup? > > Yes, sorry I made you work so hard for the info... you did ask for > more info but I got working on this thread and forgot

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-12 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
On Friday 12 December 2008 08:46:00 Heinrichs, Dirk (EXT-Capgemini - DE/Dusseldorf) wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 11.12.2008, 16:59 -0600 schrieb ext Harry Putnam: > > These URLS seem to be loading kind of slow right now: > > Hmm, unfortunately they don't load at all because of DNS failure. The > ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-11 Thread Heinrichs, Dirk (EXT-Capgemini - DE/Dusseldorf)
Am Donnerstag, den 11.12.2008, 16:59 -0600 schrieb ext Harry Putnam: > These URLS seem to be loading kind of slow right now: Hmm, unfortunately they don't load at all because of DNS failure. The machine name is unknown. Just put the files into a gzipped tar archive and attach that. Bye...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-10 Thread kyle . bader
You probably need scsi and scsi disk support compiled in as well. Everything associated with accessing the device and the filesystem it contains has to be compiled in to the kernel and not be a module. The initrd is loaded into memory and loads the kernel modules (the ones you need to compil