Weird problem after restarting Gentoo for the first time...

planetsheinker · Guru Joined: 26 Feb 2004 Posts: 403 Location: Israel

Spent two days on a stage1!!!!! install...
Here what the screen said:
*Cheking root filesystem...
fsck: fsck.ReiserFS not found
fsck: Error 2 while executing fsck.ReiserFS for /dev/hda4
*Remounting root file system read/write
*Root filesystem could not be mounted read/write :-(

Give root password for maintenance
(or type Control-D for normal setup):

So, what is wrong?

Deathwing00 · Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 6:57 pm Post subject:

Maedhros · Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 7:34 pm Post subject:

You have to have reiserfs all in lower case in your /etc/fstab, otherwise the boot scripts look for fsck.ReiserFS, which doesn't exist. This will also mean that the partition couln't be mounted, as the mount command wouldn't know what to do with it.
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planetsheinker · Guru Joined: 26 Feb 2004 Posts: 403 Location: Israel

Thanks for the fast replay :-)

Ye you were right, I booted the Gentoo live cd to check the /etc/fstab
and insteaf of "reiserfs" it was "ReiserFS" :-)

I changed it... but it did not help, here what the screen says:
*Cheking root filesystem...
Reiserfs super block in block 16 on 0x304 of format 3.6 with standard journal
Blocks (total/free): 7448128/7164490 by 4096 bytes
Filesystem marked as cleanly umounted. Skipping journal replay.
Filesystem seems mounted readonly
Cheking internal tree...finished
*Remounting root file system read/write
*Root filesystem could not be mounted read/write Sad
Give root password for maintenance
(or type Control-D for normal setup):

What now ?

Maedhros · Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 8:24 pm Post subject:

There might be another error in your /etc/fstab, to be causing that. Can you post it?
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planetsheinker · Guru Joined: 26 Feb 2004 Posts: 403 Location: Israel

Ye shure, here it is:
/dev/hda2 boot ext2 noauto,noatime 12
/dev/hda4 / reiserfs noatime,notails 00
/dev/hda3 none swap sw 00
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 auto,user 00
/dev/cdroms/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 iso9660 auto,user 00
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto 00

none /proc proc defaults 00
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 00

Drooling Iguana · Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 8:55 pm Post subject:

Do you have reiserfs support compiled into your kernel? It won't work if it's just a module, since it needs to access your root partition in order to load the module.

Maedhros · Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 9:00 pm Post subject:

There are several things wrong with your fstab file... :wink:

All the numbers at the end of each line should be separated by a space.
You need /boot, not boot
You need notail, not notails (this is probably causing the error you posted)
I'm sure you want noauto for your cdrom drives...

This should work:

planetsheinker · Guru Joined: 26 Feb 2004 Posts: 403 Location: Israel

Yep thanks a lot it helped
changed the "notails" to "notail" :-)

but steel ther are some few problems left
first:
*You need to set /etc/hostname to a valid hostname
second:
*Loading module nvidia-kernel
*Failed to load nvidia-kernel

and can you post your grub.conf? I would like to compare it with mine
cuz' the splash image wont show during boot and i get a black screen

planetsheinker · Guru Joined: 26 Feb 2004 Posts: 403 Location: Israel

Maedhros · Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 10:11 pm Post subject:

planetsheinker · Guru Joined: 26 Feb 2004 Posts: 403 Location: Israel

The hostname problem is solved, thanks :-)

but this...
*Loading module nvidia
*Failed to load nvidia

And here is another thing when I tryed this
modprobe nvidia
it said this:
]FATAL:Error inserting nvidia (/lib/modules/2.6.9-gentoo-r1/video/nvidia.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
and here is on more, when I try to do this:
modules-update
the bash says that command does not exist!!!
but the man pages says it does exist!!!!

And another thing, when my computer boots, after POST I get a black
screen with a blinking cursor, and if I press enter, Linux is booted
and if I press the down arrow and then enter, windows boos.

And a question, how can I make a certain command to be executed right after boot, automaticlly every time?
for example: adsl-start

planetsheinker · Guru Joined: 26 Feb 2004 Posts: 403 Location: Israel

forgaot to post me grub.conf :-)

default 0
timeout 30
splash image=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xmp.gz
title=Gentoo Linux
root (hd0,1)
kernel /kernel-2.6 root=/dev/hda4 VGA=795
title=Death to bill gates
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

Maedhros · Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 11:12 pm Post subject:

You have a bonus space, and a typo in your splashimage line, which is why you can't see anything. :wink:

This should work:

planetsheinker · Guru Joined: 26 Feb 2004 Posts: 403 Location: Israel

Well removing the "space" in the splashimage line did not help, and I dont see any typo?
the nvidia module is still no go...
and inn /usr/src I have two folder with identical contents.
one of them named "linux" and the other one is "linux-2.6.9-gentoo-r1

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planetsheinker · Guru Joined: 26 Feb 2004 Posts: 403 Location: Israel

XPM

I am an idiot i see it now :-)

planetsheinker · Guru Joined: 26 Feb 2004 Posts: 403 Location: Israel

Great that helped I have a nice splash image now :-)

And again, thanks for everything :-)

Drooling Iguana · Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 4:37 pm Post subject:

Did you emerge the nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx ebuilds?

Which version of the kernel are you using?

planetsheinker · Guru Joined: 26 Feb 2004 Posts: 403 Location: Israel

xbmodder · Guru Joined: 25 Feb 2004 Posts: 404

hey i can help ya here
post ur
modprobe nvidia;dmesg|tail
and try this http://ngc891.blogdns.net/index.php?2004/09/21/3-patched-nvidia-drivers#main
nvidia installer btw if ya wanna i would reccomend u hang out in the chat rooms