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d.ALT

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Re: Kernel doesn´t boot but no errors are on the screen

I would understand why the kernel config that I use for Gentoo also with systemd not works for archlinux

If you set-tup a working (Gentoo) kernel's .confg based on gentoo-sources, then said .confg wouldn't be suitable as-is here on Arch where you're foundamentally installing the "vanilla" ones.

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m-electronics

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Re: Kernel doesn´t boot but no errors are on the screen

Sorry that I didn´t answered so long. I didn´t seen the second page here. xD

And no. I´ve used a kernel archive from kernel.org what I´ve downloaded while the gentoo installation.
Then I also used the vanilla-sources there.

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m-electronics

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Re: Kernel doesn´t boot but no errors are on the screen

I would understand why the kernel config that I use for Gentoo also with systemd not works for archlinux

If you set-tup a working (Gentoo) kernel's .confg based on gentoo-sources, then said .confg wouldn't be suitable as-is here on Arch where you're foundamentally installing the "vanilla" ones.

And I have did a typo in what you´ve quoted. I want to say "I want to understand why the config is not working for the vanilla kernel on archlinux"

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m-electronics

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Re: Kernel doesn´t boot but no errors are on the screen

What I must say is that when I generate the initramfs (where I think I don´t need it because all drivers for booting are compiled into the kernel directly) I got an "error" / warning that sounds this:

 ==> WARNING: No modules were added to the image. This is probably not what you want. 

When I would see what modules missing for booting then I can fix it easily.

seth

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Re: Kernel doesn´t boot but no errors are on the screen

Are you trying to compile all modules into the kernel?
That'd certainly explain the outrageous size…

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m-electronics

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Re: Kernel doesn´t boot but no errors are on the screen

No not any module. Only the ones that I need and also only the ones that I need to boot. Other modules for ethernet bridging for example are loaded from external.

seth

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Re: Kernel doesn´t boot but no errors are on the screen

This is going nowhere.
Get a bigger hard drive for christs sake, you can trasha a 64GB usb key for this if need be.
Build the arch kernel with the default config, see whether it loads.
If yes, strip it down to your needs (by what I mean to initailly disables stuff you KNOW you won't need) then move on from there.
On a limb, your gentoo config might not enable relevant compression algorithms, but that's just guesswork.

Status quo is that you're trying to build a kernel with some random config and apparently are finding error messages as you go along.
It's not much of a surprise that it doesn't properly load.

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m-electronics

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Re: Kernel doesn´t boot but no errors are on the screen

Yes, but I don´t need any modules in the initramfs because the modules to load the kernel (FS modules and so stuff) are build in the kernel.