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igor92128
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Joined: 27 Jun 2004
Posts: 156
Location: California
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 Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 8:26 am Post subject: Can't emerge latest kernel |
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I currently have the 2.4 kernel and I'm trying to update to the latest version. But isn't the latest version 2.6? Why is Portage saying this: | Code: |
emerge --search gentoo-sources
Searching...
[ Results for search key : gentoo-sources ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]
* sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
Latest version available: 2.4.28-r5
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 31,453 kB
Homepage: http://www.kernel.org/ http://www.gentoo.org/
Description: Full sources including the Gentoo patchset for the 2.4 kernel tree
License: GPL-2
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I actually had 2.6 installed there before but I removed it and I'm now re-emerging it. It was strange seeing portage say that I have 2.6 installed when the latest version was 2.4 (according to portage). I did originally install a LiveCD 2004.2 profile and it became corrupted after awhile, so I installed 2004.3 over it without formatting anything, so maybe that is conflicting somehow. There is also something really strange in the boot directory, it seems to recursively appear whenever I cd into boot, without any actual content in boot, but the boot directory, like this: | Code: |
igor boot # pwd
/boot/boot/boot/boot/boot/boot/boot/boot/boot/boot/boot/boot/boot
igor boot # ls
boot
igor boot #
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I'm now trying to emerge the latest kernel via the gentoo-dev-sources, which is appearing as 2.6, but I don't know if it will solve the problem. Also this boot directory problem started happening after I compiled the 2.6 kernel - I know that emerge says the latest is 2.4, but I somehow had a source for 2.6 also so I just used genkernel all to compile, hoping that grub would show an option to boot from the new kernel, but no.
Any advice?
Thanks,
Igor |
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yaneurabeya
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Joined: 13 May 2004
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Location: Seattle
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| Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 8:39 am Post subject: |
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First off, you want to use gentoo-dev-sources, not gentoo-sources. gentoo-sources are the 2.4 kernel tree.
Secondly, the /boot/boot symlink was created for a reason for programs that might expect a boot directory and instead end up with nothing (I assume because some people put boot partitions on separate portions of their harddisk, although I don't practice that methodology). |
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