Installing Gentoo - The Developers Method - Stage1 and NPTL

pr3d · n00b Joined: 19 Aug 2005 Posts: 17

i`ve got a similar error, i dont have gcc 3.4 installed, just 3.3

lirc_dev: version magic '2.6.11-gentoo-r9 SMP preempt 586 4KSTACKS gcc-3.4' should be '2.6.11-gentoo-r9 486 gcc-3.3'
lirc_dev: no version magic, tainting kernel.

and the error comes up with all the modules i want to emerge,
what do you suggest me?

should i try roc's code?

regards pr3d

ali3nx · Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 1:59 am Post subject: Re: hello

pr3d · n00b Joined: 19 Aug 2005 Posts: 17

no, lirc support is no more availabl in the kernel config
the modules are compiled during install of lirc
but every other modules dont work too, if i install nvidia kernel
the nvidia.ko doesnt work. I have now almost every thing i need
of drivers compiled into the kernel, so i cant start my pc anyway.
the strange is i didnt have gcc 3.4 installed just the gcc3.3.5 which
i emerged.

pr3d · n00b Joined: 19 Aug 2005 Posts: 17

i've made an own topic
it's located here:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-371848.html

there is some more information about my problem, maybe you could help

Rukie · Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2005 4:12 pm Post subject:

Everything worked great except for one thing... the splash image! I get several errors. I followed everything step for step, but I still get the following errors.

"Cannot open config file /etc/splash/livecd-2005.1/640x480.cf"
"No 8bpp verbose silent picure specified in theme config"
"No 8bpp verbose picture specified in theme config"
"Failed to get 8bpp picture in theme config"

I've tried adjusting the grub.conf in a few different ways, and nothign really seems to make any headway.
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ali3nx · Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 10:02 am Post subject:

Few edit's and code example cleanups. I removed all the hostnames from various servers and workstations i used while making the tutorial. I'll be adding more content this fall time permitting. kde, gnome, and xorg setup with gdm. and an optional sections on using hardened gentoo linux :twisted:

More to come Stay tuned
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ycUygB1 · Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 9:33 pm Post subject: Kernel Panic

Well, I spent all day following the instructions, rebooted and after the initrd finished,
I got:

VFS: Cannot open root device "sda8" or unknown-block(0,0)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)

My setup is:
ASUS A8N-SLI Premium Motherboard.
AMD64 x2
1 sata drive attached to the Nvidia controller.
there is also an SiI SATA controller, which has no drives attached.
/boot is on /dev/sda4, type ext2
/ is on /dev/sda8, type reiserfs (3.6)

grub.conf says:
root (hd0,4)
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda8 video=vesafb:ywrap,pmipal,1024x768-32@65 splash=silent,fadein,theme:livecd-2005.1 quiet
initrd (hd0,4)/fbsplash-livecd-2005.1-1024x768

OK, so I scoured the internet, and quite a few people have had the same problem.
Here are all the things I've tried which haven't worked:

1) Disabling advanced partition selection in the kernel. This worked for a lot of people, apparently.
2) Compiling ext2, ext3, reiserfs, squashfs and cramfs into the kernel not as modules.
3) Make sure that Nvidia SATA support is in the kernel, not as a module.

The 2005.1 live cd works fine by loading libata followed by sata_nv, but I don't know if you can do that with an initrd.

EDIT -- I solved this problem by enabling Advanced Partition selection and the MSDOS Partitions suboption.
This is apparently new in the .config. /dev/sda1 is a Windows setup, so the kernel got confused and needed
these two options to be enabled in the .config.

xchric · n00b Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 35

I got this error when I was doing

erezny · Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 6:06 pm Post subject:

I wanted to point out that the link
http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo/releases/x86/2005.1/livecd/install-x86-minimal-2005.1.iso doesn't work, but the file has a bittorent at http://tracker.netdomination.org/. Also, the lxnay dvd has one very slow server atm, and if there is anybody who has it who could share it for a while, i wouldnt mind being a seed for it as soon as i can download a copy.
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CapnLoogie · Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 10:00 pm Post subject:

I have a K6-3-400 that Im trying to install Gentoo on. It says in your make.conf to avoid using the flag for these processors. I cant seem to find the bug that it points to. If Im not supposed to use them what should I set the CFLAGS to?

Thanks

The Cap'n

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xchric · n00b Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 35

ericx · n00b Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Posts: 19

I've been trying to follow the tutorial, and I've gotten as far as this component of the build one-liner:

emerge --newuse -uD system

I can't really follow the emerge script; but the build of pango fails when it tries to include Xlib.h:

ali3nx · Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 3:50 am Post subject: Re: Catch 22 problem with Xlib.h

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ali3nx · Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 7:22 am Post subject:

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wschalk · n00b Joined: 30 Jan 2005 Posts: 38

Hi,

I try to install a Gentoo system remotely on my friends' laptop (currently running Debian 3.0 with a 2.4.x kernel) and I am getting those "no space left on device" errors. Here's what I did:

/dev/hda1 was my friends' swap partition, and is no an ext3 one:

# mount /dev/hda1 /mnt

Afterwards I downloaded stage 1 for x86 and extracted it, modified make.conf

# mount -t proc proc /mnt/proc
# mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev
# cp /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/etc/resolv.conf
# chroot /mnt /bin/bash
# env-update && source /etc/profile

(I have to do the following step to make "df" work, otherwise, it will come up with strange error messages)
# cp /proc/mounts /etc/mtab

Downloaded and extraced a portage snapshort. Now running "emerge sync" leads to

# emerge sync
>>> starting rsync with rsync://134.68.220.97/gentoo-portage...
>>> checking server timestamp ...
Welcome to hawk.gentoo.org

Server Address : 134.68.220.97
Contact Name : mirror-admin@gentoo.org
Hardware : 1 x Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz, 2176MB RAM

Please note: common gentoo-netiquette says you should not sync more
than once a day. Users who abuse the rsync.gentoo.org rotation
may be added to a temporary ban list.

MOTD brought to you by motd-o-matic, version 0.3

receiving file list ...
1 file to consider
mkstemp "/var/tmp/.timestamp.chk.VaX9k9" failed: No space left on device
32 100% 0.00kB/s 0:00:00

However there should be space on the harddisk:

# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 950M 538M 402M 58% /
/dev/root 950M 538M 402M 58% /
devpts 146G 448M 138G 1% /dev/pts
tmpfs 146G 448M 138G 1% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1 950M 538M 402M 58% /
/dev/root 146G 448M 138G 1% /dev

Interestingly "df -i" says something different:

# df -i
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
rootfs 123648 123648 0 100% /
/dev/root 123648 123648 0 100% /
devpts 19415040 21834 19393206 1% /dev/pts
tmpfs 19415040 21834 19393206 1% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1 123648 123648 0 100% /
/dev/root 19415040 21834 19393206 1% /dev

Any ideas what might cause this?

Thanks a lot and bye,
Werner.

Bob P · Advocate Joined: 20 Oct 2004 Posts: 3374 Location: USA

Yikes! Has Hell Frozen Over? The Gentoo Stage 1 Install is Now Officially UNSUPPORTED!

slycordinator · Advocate Joined: 31 Jan 2004 Posts: 3065 Location: Korea

krizz · n00b Joined: 15 Sep 2004 Posts: 26

Hi there,

I really dig this installation method, isn't it cool to deviate from the 'normal' way

But, I spotted some 'errors':

If I emerge gcc-config (the first thing to emerge); emerge complaints about non-existence of /var/log/portage, I just manually created it.
emerge libperl is there twice (I mean the loooong instruction).

My 0.02$

/* EDIT

Also, I'd like to point at the fact that just after the bootstrap, gcc-3.4 is installed, but not used to compile yet. This will only work after a env-update and source /etc/profile. Try it yourself.

*/

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ericx · n00b Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Posts: 19

radyvix · n00b Joined: 26 Feb 2004 Posts: 6

Wanted to say thanks. This is the install guide that I was looking for. Everything on my system is running much smoother than my past installs and it only took one shot. I now have a working linux desktop/server computer and look forward to performing this install on some more boxes.

mr2600 · n00b Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 54 Location: Florida

What a nice tutorial... I decided to re-roll a test on some new hardware we obtained at work.
Pentium 4 630 with 2mb cache and EMT64.

CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse2 -mfpmath=sse -pipe"

However at "USE="-* build bootstrap" emerge linux-headers" I got this problem...