Grub Stops at Stage 4

mt2 · n00b Joined: 20 Sep 2003 Posts: 20

I've recently begun to install Gentoo on a new system of mine and all was going well up to the point I rebooted. I was having Splash issues, but I've since repaired them. I now have a new program with Grub stalling...

tmr777 · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 3:52 pm Post subject:

Do you have something like 'root=/dev/hda3' appended to the kernel line in grub? linuxrc is complaining that no root device was specified.

_Terry

mt2 · n00b Joined: 20 Sep 2003 Posts: 20

I have. I've tried both versions in the install a neither works. Though the one for the newer genkernel leaves a new message. I'll retrieve it.

Thanks for you help!

subzero349 · Apprentice Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Posts: 153

what filesystem is your root and boot?

I had this error with reiserfs... I gave up and switched to ext3 which solved my problem...

let me know
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tmr777 · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 4:14 pm Post subject:

Two things:

1. at the error type:

mt2 · n00b Joined: 20 Sep 2003 Posts: 20

subzero349 · Apprentice Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Posts: 153

my boot was also ext3...

the problem was in my ROOT being reiserfs believe it or not...
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mt2 · n00b Joined: 20 Sep 2003 Posts: 20

That's strange. I may just have to switch to ext3, but if I can, I would like to stay with ReiserFS.

With the following line, I get the following error from grub.

subzero349 · Apprentice Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Posts: 153

i wanted to use reiserfs too... and it always worked when I tried with 2.4 kernels... but nobody really seems to know what the problem is...
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mt2 · n00b Joined: 20 Sep 2003 Posts: 20

I've since switched to ext3 and all appears to be working. Others (in lots of other topics) have also had this same problem. It's a kernel thingey...

Just glad Gentoo is working!

Thank you all!

subzero349 · Apprentice Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Posts: 153

TO all "smart" people out there...

Please help us get this fixed!!

If you search the forums you will see that many many people are getting these problems when trying to use Rieserfs with kernel 2.6... My solution is to not use Reiserfs (which makes me sad

)... what's your solution?

I am not "linux smart" enough to make a bug report... and I'm not sure if I missed something in the kernel (yes I did compile reiserfs into it... and no, I didn't compile it as a module)...

thanks for any help

edit:
Wait... it looks like mt is using 2.4 kernel... maybe it's something new with reiserfs that isn't being handled right? My old 2.4 worked just great with reiserfs...
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michaelb · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 5:30 pm Post subject:

The problem is genkernel. It's broken in a number of ways. FreeFly42 came up with a workaround for what looks to be the same issue over in this thread.

My solution to everyone has been the same, give genkernel the heave-ho and do your kernel compile and install manually. It's really not that hard. Follow the instructions in the Installation Handbook, and post with any particular questions you have.
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mt2 · n00b Joined: 20 Sep 2003 Posts: 20

I've begun the compilation of the 2.6 kernel as per your instructions. I've also kept a smaller ReiserFS partition to test on. Hopefully things will work out.

subzero349 · Apprentice Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Posts: 153

michaelb thanks for the info...

I wasn't trying to be rude just so you know... I was just calling for help

I am doing my best to learn and I have learned a lot on my own... but everyonce in awhile I need the gurus help!

Another question - you can't convert filesystems in linux can you?
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subzero349 · Apprentice Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Posts: 153

And now I am kicking myself even more...

Reading about that genkernel versus compiling your own kernel... It looks like I've been doing most everything that genkernel was not built for...

I still use --menuconfig so I can tweak the kernel and make it work
I still use /etc/modules.autoload/kernel2.6 to load my modules

One question though... please tell me where the simlink "linux" points to in /usr/src/ -- does it point to /boot/kernel-2.6.1-gentoo-r1 or /usr/src/kernel-2.6.1-gentoo-r1?

Thank you
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michaelb · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 5:53 pm Post subject:

No problems Sub, and I didn't think you were being rude at all.

subzero349 · Apprentice Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Posts: 153

Thanks,

I will try that when I get home

what I mean is, where should it be pointing?

For example, if I "emerge -k sys-kernel/gentoo-dev-sources" and it puts "kernel-2.6.2-gentoo-r1" in my /usr/src directory, do I link /usr/src/linux to /usr/src/kernel-2.6.2-gentoo-r1" ? and then run a make menuconfig in the /usr/src/linux location?
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michaelb · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 6:02 pm Post subject:

Yes, that's exactly what you want to do.
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subzero349 · Apprentice Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Posts: 153

excellent... thanks
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