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Where to report issues about "genkernel all" not selecting reasonable defaults?

genkernel states that bugs ought not to be reported against genkernel after a failure like drivers/scsi/aha1542.c: In function ‘aha1542_interrupt’: drivers/scsi/aha1542.c:306:3: error: implicit ...
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Disable RAID in custom kernel?

I need a Gentoo 13 machine to test some software on the platform. I'm not a Gentoo regular, so I'm suffering their procedures. I noticed the kernel spends a couple of seconds booting due to RAID ...
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How to pass CONFIG_BUILD_DOCSRC=n to genkernel?

I need a Gentoo 13 machine to test some software on the platform. I'm not a Gentoo regular, so I'm suffering their install procedures. I'm at Configuring the Linux kernel, and it failed with: (chroot)...
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Gentoo Linux: Building a kernel that only only contains drivers for the hardware in place

I would like to build a kernel for my system that only contains modules for the hardware which is really in place. Of course I can walk through lspci and manually select all the necessary device ...
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GENTOO: disadvantages to using genkernel all?

I'm wondering, what are the disadvantages to using genkernel when I'm compiling a kernel in gentoo? Is it perfectly ok to use genkernel all in pretty much any situation and skip this difficult/arduous ...
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How to load a module in gentoo?

I am using gentoo 2.6.30 and I tried to load a module as follows: modprobe usbcore with the response modprobe: module 'usbcore' not found However, I can find a directory with that name in the ...
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Raid system fails to boot after moving from 2.6 kernel to 3.5

I'm running Gentoo Linux with a custom compiled kernel and I've just migrated from a 2.6 kernel to a 3.5. As my HD's are on RAID 0 mode I use a custom initrd file in order to be able to boot. While ...
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