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Heliode
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 Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 7:20 am Post subject: First boot problem |
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Hey,
I've just managed to get Grub to be able to boot all the operating systems i have installed (3 in total now) only when I finialy boot Gentoo for the first time, everything seems to go well (can't read it all, scrolls too fast) but after a short wile, maybe 2 or 3 seconds, i see a line of this:
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attempt to access beyond end of device
01:00: rw=0, want=4137, limit=4096
attempt to access beyond end of device
01:00: rw=0, want=4138, limit=4096
attempt to access beyond end of device
01:00: rw=0, want=4139, limit=4096
(goes on for a while like that)
BusyBox v1.00-pre7 (2004.05.16-21:10+0000) Built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
/bin/sh: can't access tty:job control turned off
attempt to access beyond end of device
01:00: rw=0, want=4147, limit=4096
attempt to access beyond end of device
01:00: rw=0, want=4147, limit=4096
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So I figure I somehow did something wrong somewhere, but i've not the slightest idea what  |
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Tii
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| Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 8:31 am Post subject: |
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| With shift + page up and down you should be able to move up and see more of the errors. |
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Heliode
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| Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 8:38 am Post subject: |
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ok... booting seems to go normaly up to this point:
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VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 156k freed
attempt to access beyond end of device
01:00: rw=0, want=4136, limit=4096
attempt to access beyond end of device
01:00: rw=0, want=4137, limit=4096
attempt to access beyond end of device
01:00: rw=0, want=4138, limit=4096
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and that goes on for about a page or so, until reaching what i've posted in my 1st post.
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I can browse around a bit, there are only 10 dirs in the root directory, no mnt, only bin, etc, linuxrc, proc, temp, dev, lib, lost+found, sbin & usr. i can look inside these a bit, but when I cd to proc and issue the ls command, it gives me this:
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attempt to access beyond end of device
01:00: rw=0, want=4145, limit=4096
attempt to access beyond end of device
01:00: rw=0, want=4145, limit=4096
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might this have something to do with the problem? |
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Tii
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| Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 8:52 am Post subject: |
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| You installation wouldn't happen to be a stage 3 x86 installation maybe with genkernel? |
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Heliode
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| Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 8:59 am Post subject: |
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| it ís X86 with genkernel, but i've started from Stage 1. |
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Tii
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| Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 9:00 am Post subject: |
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| Hmm. You could try to edit your grub.conf and add to the kernel line something like "ramdisk=8192". |
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Heliode
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| Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 9:13 am Post subject: |
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Tried it, didn't work  but tnx anyway |
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Tii
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| Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 9:16 am Post subject: |
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| Heliode wrote: | | Tried it, didn't work but tnx anyway |
Are you still getting that same error or is the text changed at all? It should be if the ramdisk size has really changed.
edit: Try also "ramdisk_size=8192" if it hasn't changed. |
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Heliode
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| Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 9:25 am Post subject: |
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Hey wait a minute... i added the 'ramdisk=8192' to the line in the bootloader, but i must have saved it incorrectly the 1st time i tried... lets try again...
oh my god it's booting!  .... and i have "Gentoo login: _"!
woohoo!
my thanks are great  |
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Tii
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| Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 9:28 am Post subject: |
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Glad it's working for you.  |
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Heliode
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| Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 9:38 am Post subject: |
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one last question; now that i apperantly got my system running, how do i edit the grub config file so that the extra command is issued staticly (is that a word?). however, the config file is no longer at the spot it was during the installation (/boot/grub/grub.conf if i remember correctly). so how do i edit the grub settings now? hope this isn't too much of a stupid question  |
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Tii
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| Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 9:47 am Post subject: |
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| Heliode wrote: | | one last question; now that i apperantly got my system running, how do i edit the grub config file so that the extra command is issued staticly (is that a word?). however, the config file is no longer at the spot it was during the installation (/boot/grub/grub.conf if i remember correctly). so how do i edit the grub settings now? hope this isn't too much of a stupid question |
If you set up your computer as in the installation guide, your /boot wont be mounted. So try "mount /boot" first and see if it works. |
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amne
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| Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 7:53 pm Post subject: |
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This is a duplicate of Lilo boot problem. Please post further replies to this topic there.
I'm moving this thread from Installing Gentoo to Duplicate Threads. |
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