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| Budoka wrote: | | Does that mean there is no "stable" kernel available??? |
The two you have installed are from the stable branch. The next one will probably be 3.7.10-r1 or maybe 3.8.3.
You can install 3.8.4 or the prior two now with an entry in package.accept_keywords.
I would recommend getting the kernels you have now running before installing a newer version 
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Budoka
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| Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2013 6:25 am Post subject: |
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| BillWho wrote: | | Budoka wrote: | | Does that mean there is no "stable" kernel available??? |
The two you have installed are from the stable branch. The next one will probably be 3.7.10-r1 or maybe 3.8.3.
You can install 3.8.4 or the prior two now with an entry in package.accept_keywords.
I would recommend getting the kernels you have now running before installing a newer version |
Thank you for your patience and help BillWho.
OK. Clearly I am missing something.
As I indicated I can successfully boot linux-3.6.11-gentoo and it has all of the selections I made in genkernel. Is it safe to assume that this config file is OK?
I copied the "good" config to linux-3.6.11-gentoo-r1 and ran make oldconfig "successfully".
But,
1) The kernel config is not keeping stuff I already indicated. I must go back and recompile with ie: the necessary cryptographic options to access Luks, and also noticed all the ACPI Power management stuff is no longer there. Once I do that...
2) I still can not boot. The behaviour is the same that I described earlier. Boot starts, prompt for Luks password, bumps me into the perpetually blinking underscore.
Really frustrated. Is it me?
Here is my X log:
[url]linux-3.6.11-gentoo[/url]
If I emerge linux-3.6.11-gentoo sources can I continue to compile the one kernel I have that works. My fear is that I will emerge those sources and all my previous setting will disappear leaving me with, now 3, unusable kernels. |
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Budoka
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Update:
So it dawned on me that if the kernel config selections aren't being preserved maybe the Intel Driver stuff wasn't as well. That was indeed the case so I selected in genkernel, recompiled, and now can successfully boot into inux-3.6.11-gentoo-r1.
Before I try to use the newer kernel though I would like to find out what I am doing incorrectly, or what is going on, that my kernel selections from config aren't carrying over.
I copy it over and do make oldconfig and at the very least Cryptography, ACPI, and Intel Drivers are not carried over into the new kernel. Any ideas? |
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BillWho
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| Budoka wrote: | Update:
So it dawned on me that if the kernel config selections aren't being preserved maybe the Intel Driver stuff wasn't as well. That was indeed the case so I selected in genkernel, recompiled, and now can successfully boot into inux-3.6.11-gentoo-r1.
Before I try to use the newer kernel though I would like to find out what I am doing incorrectly, or what is going on, that my kernel selections from config aren't carrying over.
I copy it over and do make oldconfig and at the very least Cryptography, ACPI, and Intel Drivers are not carried over into the new kernel. Any ideas? |
I don't know what you could be doing to lose those settings. On this computer with genkernel I went from 2.6.39-gentoo to 3.9.0-rc3 without ever losing one setting.
The only thing I can suggest is again save the config file, download one from kernel seeds make oldconfig for linux-3.6.11-gentoo then copy it to linux-3.6.11-gentoo-r1 and make oldconfig then do a diff on them. Don't involve genkernel , do it manually.
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| Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 3:24 am Post subject: |
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| BillWho wrote: | | Budoka wrote: | Update:
So it dawned on me that if the kernel config selections aren't being preserved maybe the Intel Driver stuff wasn't as well. That was indeed the case so I selected in genkernel, recompiled, and now can successfully boot into inux-3.6.11-gentoo-r1.
Before I try to use the newer kernel though I would like to find out what I am doing incorrectly, or what is going on, that my kernel selections from config aren't carrying over.
I copy it over and do make oldconfig and at the very least Cryptography, ACPI, and Intel Drivers are not carried over into the new kernel. Any ideas? |
I don't know what you could be doing to lose those settings. On this computer with genkernel I went from 2.6.39-gentoo to 3.9.0-rc3 without ever losing one setting.
The only thing I can suggest is again save the config file, download one from kernel seeds make oldconfig for linux-3.6.11-gentoo then copy it to linux-3.6.11-gentoo-r1 and make oldconfig then do a diff on them. Don't involve genkernel , do it manually. |
Can you clarify one thing for me?
I am running from right? Not from | Quote: | | /usr/src/linux-3.xx |
I am now able to successfully compile and boot new kernels but that is because I know what settings I am losing along the way and recompile. When I grabbed a config file from kernel-seeds and copy it to the new src folder and run genkernel it throws a "can't copy config file" error. When I look in the directory it renames the .config file to a .bak thus leaving no .config in the dir. This is reproducible every time. I am just not sure if it is because of a mistake I am making or if it is a bug? |
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| Budoka wrote: | Can you clarify one thing for me?
I am running
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make oldconfig
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/usr/src/linux
right? Not from
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/usr/src/linux-3.xx
I am now able to successfully compile and boot new kernels but that is because I know what settings I am losing along the way and recompile. When I grabbed a config file from kernel-seeds and copy it to the new src folder and run genkernel it throws a "can't copy config file" error. When I look in the directory it renames the .config file to a .bak thus leaving no .config in the dir. This is reproducible every time. I am just not sure if it is because of a mistake I am making or if it is a bug? |
Yes. cd /usr/src/linux is correct.
I can't explain the genkernel "can't copy config file" error. But, I asked you to do oldconfig manually in both folders then a diff in order to eliminate the source of your problem. Did you try that 
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| Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 2:17 am Post subject: |
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| BillWho wrote: | | Budoka wrote: | Can you clarify one thing for me?
I am running
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make oldconfig
from
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/usr/src/linux
right? Not from
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/usr/src/linux-3.xx
I am now able to successfully compile and boot new kernels but that is because I know what settings I am losing along the way and recompile. When I grabbed a config file from kernel-seeds and copy it to the new src folder and run genkernel it throws a "can't copy config file" error. When I look in the directory it renames the .config file to a .bak thus leaving no .config in the dir. This is reproducible every time. I am just not sure if it is because of a mistake I am making or if it is a bug? |
Yes. cd /usr/src/linux is correct.
I can't explain the genkernel "can't copy config file" error. But, I asked you to do oldconfig manually in both folders then a diff in order to eliminate the source of your problem. Did you try that |
Thanks for the clarification. I did miss the doing it manually instruct. I'll try it but have never done one before so need to learn how to do so first. Until now I have only used genkernel. |
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| Budoka wrote: | | Thanks for the clarification. I did miss the doing it manually instruct. I'll try it but have never done one before so need to learn how to do so first. Until now I have only used genkernel. |
It's very simple, you just type make oldconfig
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| BillWho wrote: | | Budoka wrote: | | Thanks for the clarification. I did miss the doing it manually instruct. I'll try it but have never done one before so need to learn how to do so first. Until now I have only used genkernel. |
It's very simple, you just type make oldconfig |
Ah! In that case, Yes, I was doing it manually. |
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