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eXess
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 Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 10:09 pm Post subject: Help! Install succeeds but reboot fails (grub then reset!) |
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I did install everything correctly I swear. This is not the first Gentoo Linux I'm installing. The only odd thing with this system is that I could umount /mnt/gentoo at the end of install (device was busy). Nevermind that, I reset.
Then I get the GRUB splash screen, select my config, hit enter and... the computer resets!!! Booting is impossible. Help! What did I do wrong? Should I post my grub.conf or something? Please help, someone...
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Halcy0n
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| Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 10:20 pm Post subject: |
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Posting your grub.conf file would be helpful, as well as how your partitions is setup probably. We need alittle more information to be able to help.
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eXess
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| Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 11:56 pm Post subject: |
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| grub.conf wrote: | timeout 30
default 0
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Linux-2.4.22-Gentoo-r6
root (hd0,0)
kernel= (hd0,0)/kernel-2.4.22 root /dev/hda3 |
| make.conf wrote: | USE="apache2 berkdb crypt curl gd icc imap innodb ldap libwww mysql postregs python samba ssl tcpd -usb xml xml2 x86 mmx sse"
CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium-mmx -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CXXFLAGS$="{CFLAGS}"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
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I omitted comments. Splasimage loads correctly, (hd0,0) is really my /boot partition (ext2, hda1). I thought it might be a kernel problem, but I double-checked menuconfig and the processor type is correctly set to Pentium-MMX (GCC>3.1). I checked GCC version before compiling and it's really 3.2.3. And /dev/hda3 is really my / partition (ext3). I tried replacing the root argument in the kernel line of grub.conf with root=(hd0,0), and it changes absolutely nothing. Maybe I should try genkernel...
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KCat
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| Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 12:18 am Post subject: |
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I'm having this same exact trouble, both with LILO and GRUB. The selection/splash screen comes up fine, but when I select Gentoo, the system either locks up or resets. My partitions are the same as in the docs, except the /boot partition and swap space are on /dev/hdb instead. The partition numbers, coincidentally, are the same:
| Code: | /dev/hdb1 - /boot
/dev/hdb2 - swap
/dev/hda3 - / |
I'm attempting genkernel now, but it's taking forever to compile the modules.
EDIT:
But as a side note to eXess, if you're using a Pentium-MMX, I don't think the i686 target will work. The i686 is a Pentium Pro, which is a step above a Pentium (with or without MMX). The Pentium Pro lacks MMX instructions, but has stuff that no Pentium-class CPU, I believe, has (one thing of which is the cmov instruction, but no doubt some other things). Someone correct me if I'm wrong. |
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eXess
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| Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 3:52 pm Post subject: |
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Yep. The i686 line was a typo. But I'll try to use genkernel tonight, just in case... The fellow should figure out all hardware issues by itself, I guess [edit: but it won't figure out my ISA D-Link Ethernet card, though, I hope modules-update will work nevertheless...).
I would be really angry if it turned out impossible to install Gentoo on this machine. It has run Red Hat 7.3 for over a year without problems, and I decided to reinstall it because Red Hat turned commercial and because Gentoo rulez (supposedly...)
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KCat
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| Well, using genkernel did the trick for me. Gentoo finally boots all by itself (though I get some warning when booting about about modules for USB devices, it starts up fine). Though now I'm having problems with emerge not install all required dependancies. I did 'emerge --usepkg kde', and kde wouldn't work unless I also emerged libart_lgpl and fam-oss (the second being a real bitch to find out was what I needed). Konquerer throws out errors about missing files when I try to run it, too. I alsp tried emerging gaim, and it's missing 'libpspell.so.15'. WTH? |
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eXess
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| Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 12:23 am Post subject: |
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Well, genkernel also did the trick for me. And now I think my problem was because I did not make a make dep && makeclean bzImage etc. so I guess something was still stuck to beleiving about the Pentium3 thing...
About your usb-modules problems, try removing them from your modules-autoload then running modules-update (use lsmod to figure out exactly what you need and don't). Also maybe pass a "nousb" argument to your kernel line in grub...
Problem solved, as far as I'm concerned. Thx all 
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