Add a menu item to GRUB to force a Linux file system check on boot with Gentoo Linux.

Change a standard boot entry such as this:

title=Gentoo-Linux-3.1.3 [Build #1]
root (hd0,0)
kernel /kernel-3.1.3-gentoo root=/dev/sda5 vga=791 quiet

To this:

title=Gentoo-Linux-3.1.3 [Build #1] - Disk Check
root (hd0,0)
kernel /kernel-3.1.3-gentoo root=/dev/sda5 vga=791 quiet gentoo=forcefsck

Add the “gentoo=forcefsck” option to the kernel command line.
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A quick tip on rebuilding installed X drivers on a Gentoo System (xorg-server update driver rebuild).

emerge -avq $(qlist -IC x11-drivers)

If you do not have ‘qlist’ installed on your system it is part of the ‘app-portage/portage-utils’ package.

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Recently performed some testing with the latest released Gentoo Kernel (3.0.0-gentoo) and the Cogent SRRIPC (Send/Receive/Reply) Kernel Module. The module initially failed to compile with this kernel version (Code and Makefile changes, see below for patch).

As previously noted, the SRRIPC Kernel Module is essential if you are porting applications from QNX (4.2x) over to Linux (it makes the process quite painless too).

I have posted a basic patch on the Cogent Forums that resolves the compilation problems, all seems well with testing thus far.

SRRIPC 1.4.44 – 3.0 Kernel Patch

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