[Wlug] New ULTRA1 - one step forward, two steps backward....

[Mike Frysinger]

On Thursday 19 April 2007, ken jones wrote:
> Nevertheless I had a very difficult time with manual configuration of
> the kernel.  I had not the faintest idea which modules I could ignore
> and which I needed to modularize

the Gentoo docs dont really go into this sort of detail

> Question: is there a log somewhere?  I did emerge syslog-ng.

syslog-ng is a userspace system logger ... it doesnt log the kernel messages 
you're looking for

> Another question: Where is the detailed documentation on all the modules?

it's in the kernel menu itself ... hit "?" when selecting an interesting 
option

> Final question:  How do I get a hint at what I did wrong?

it may be a lot easier if you start from something known to work ... aka the 
livecd kernel ... you can copy /proc/config.gz and use that as a starting 
point for your kernel .config

or you could copy the livecd kernel + modules to your root filesystem and use 
that to boot ...
-mike
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