Upgrading Sabayon kernel

[Lazydog]

Hello all,

I have decided to try another distro and the one I have chosen is Sabayon. I am used to RH and one just updates the kernel along with the other update. I have come to find out that is not how Sabayon works.

I am not sure what needs to be updated when I update the kernel. Can anyone shed some light on the matter as I do not want to destroy my setup as I am tired of re-installing.

Thnx.

[MikeTbob]

basically Sabayon is Gentoo and you update it via command line.

emerge --sync

emerge -avu world

Unoffical Guide To World Update - Sabayon Wiki
Or by using Entropy.
En:Entropy - Sabayon Wiki

I think you can update the kernel by itself without all the other stuff. What happened last time you updated and it broke? Did you lose X? Mouse & keyboard stopped working?

[Lazydog]

whole system stopped working. I re-installed to get everythings back.
I use CLI for updating and upgrading.

equo upgrade
equo update

[MikeTbob]

whole system stopped working. I re-installed to get everythings back.
I use CLI for updating and upgrading.

equo upgrade
equo update

I'm just a little more interested in the failure you had. So, it didn't even boot to a terminal after things went haywire after updating the system? Was it a fresh install that got borked after you tried to update? I'm asking because I want to try the latest Sabayon.....it was a lot of fun last time I tried it. I think it was version 7? I'd like to try avoiding your problem if it's applicable. Are you AMD64? X86?
Thanks for the tip about "equo upgrade" is that part of Entropy or something altogether different?

[Lazydog]

Hello MikeTbob, sorry I'm so late in replying, been busy lately with sandy pounding the east coast.

Anyway, I was able to upgrade my kernel with

kernel-switcher switch sys-kernel/linux-sabayon-3.6-r1

Now when I boot I get a message about a file missing and I have to hit a key to continue to boot.
I was hoping to have this missing file logged somewhere but I cannot seem to find it.

[MikeTbob]

Nothing in /var/log/messages, dmesg, isn't there also a kernel log in /var/log/? I'm not at a Linux machine so I can't check that.

[Lazydog]

Checked dmesg and seen nothing, which I think is surprising. Nothing in the other files either. Remember this is right after I chose what I want to boot in grub.

[MikeTbob]

It's not making it far enough to log anything. Still no idea what the missing files is named?


Glad you made it through Sandy, it looks like a real mess around those parts. Hopefully things will start looking better soon.

[Lazydog]

It's not making it far enough to log anything. Still no idea what the missing files is named?

No, I still haven't found out what is missing. But everything is booting and running so it cannot be all that bad.
Maybe a splash screen of some sort.

Glad you made it through Sandy, it looks like a real mess around those parts. Hopefully things will start looking better soon.

Yeah, it is still a mess in some parts and now we have another storm blowing though.

[Lazydog]

Moved on to installing Virtualbox on this system. Never played with VB always used kvm myself so this should be fun.