ramdisk error on boot to new Gentoo.

Gentree

I have build a new gentoo in a chroot shell from stage1.

I have done bootstrap , emerge system , etc. and built my usual kernel from within the chroot and copied it to the usual boot partition (taking care not to confuse the different mount points from within the chroot shell.)

The kernel starts to boot , sees all the hardware , disks etc. then shows a ramdisk error and drops me out to single user with / mounted ro , not /etc/mtab and not much to play with.

electrofreak · l33t Joined: 30 Jun 2004 Posts: 713 Location: Ohio, USA

do you have ramdisk support built into the kernel??

Gentree · Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2005 12:22 am Post subject:

Well it has been there for the last 12 months but it seemed so dumb it might be possible that it had disappeared so I checked.

ramdisk and initrd are both intact.

While I was in there I scanned the whole kernel config , all is as I expected.

I have used this kernel since sept , so I dont know why it is bolloxing around now.

Just had a little voice in my ear: coreutils , off to ck.

Thx

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