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