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IceFreak2000
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I've decided to make the move from the warm and cuddly hand-holding world of Mandrake 10.1 to Gentoo, but I'm running into some issues.
My system is a home build; pertinant specs are:
* P4 3.0Ghz H/T
* 1Gb PC3200 RAM
* Asus P4P800S-E Deluxe
* Maxtor DiamondMax +9 160Gb S/ATA
* Sound Blaster Live! 5.1
I have Windows XP installed on /dev/sda1, and going via the Gentoo installation docs I created /dev/sda2 (/boot), /dev/sda3 (swap) and /dev/sda4 (/)
I followed the installation instructions through without a problem (bar mirrorselect dumping crap into /etc/make.conf). I also built two 2.4 kernels (one using genkernel and the other manually).
I've opted for LILO as opposed to GRUB, simply because I've had experience with LILO before (albeit not a lot).
After rebooting, I can boot into Windows XP from lilo without a problem. However, neither the manual nor the genkernel images will work when attempting to boot Gentoo. It appears that /dev/sda4 is not a valid root location.
I hope this has made sense to someone out there - and if so, any ideas on how to solve this problem?
Many thanks.
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adaptr
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| Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 9:35 am Post subject: |
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Boot with LiveCD, post output of:
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cat /etc/lilo.conf
fdisk -l
lsmod
lspci |
Did you include support for the SATA protocol and chipset into the kernel ?
Genkernel is no issue here, because you will have to probe for SATA before the genkernel kernel can use it - it is not automatic.
That's probably it...
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IceFreak2000
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| Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 9:49 am Post subject: |
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| adaptr wrote: | Boot with LiveCD, post output of:
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cat /etc/lilo.conf
fdisk -l
lsmod
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I'll post the results this evening when I'm back at home
| adaptr wrote: | | Did you include support for the SATA protocol and chipset into the kernel ? |
Ahhh, no I didn't...
| adaptr wrote: | | Genkernel is no issue here, because you will have to probe for SATA before the genkernel kernel can use it - it is not automatic. |
Cue sound of small denomination coinage falling.... 
| adaptr wrote: | | That's probably it... |
Makes sense.... 
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lodder_
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| Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 12:21 pm Post subject: |
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i'm also using sata and had a lot of problems.
but i would suggest install grub and if you get a error on sda try hdc that worked for me .
with grub it's easy to change the name of the dev |
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IceFreak2000
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Cheers adaptr - I compiled in S-ATA support and the system now boots. However, onto the next problem!
I've been trying to follow the Gentoo Linux nVidia Guide and seem to be getting nowhere fast.
I've installed Xorg as per The X Server Configuration HOWTO and can get a twm session running.
I've run
but, whenever I try to
I get the standard warnings about tainting the kernel, and the console hangs. Any ideas?
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adaptr
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So - which nVidia card do you have ?
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| adaptr wrote: | | So - which nVidia card do you have ? |
MSI 128Mb GeForce FX 5700 Ultra
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And which version of nvidia-kernel have you emerged ?
That seems to be the biggest source of problems for nVidia cards...
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IceFreak2000
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| adaptr wrote: | And which version of nvidia-kernel have you emerged ?
That seems to be the biggest source of problems for nVidia cards... |
Well, I'm not entirely sure!
According to the documentation, all I should need to do is
and the nvidia-kernel dependancy should be satisfied. I'm using the 2.4.26-r14 kernel at the moment.
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| Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 12:53 pm Post subject: |
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I'm not quite sure about the dependencies, but you can always do a
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It will not harm you're system |
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Crucis
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| Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 1:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Also, it is possible to install the drivers manually. The official linux drivers are available at http://www.nvidia.com |
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racoontje
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| Crucis wrote: | | Also, it is possible to install the drivers manually. The official linux drivers are available at http://www.nvidia.com |
And the reason you want to do this would be?
The ebuild is kept updated, the ebuild supports patching, the ebuild does configuration automagically, the ebuild is great for lazy people... |
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IceFreak2000
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| Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2005 2:57 pm Post subject: |
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OK, I've finally managed to get it to work (after giving up for a while)
I found that performing
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and then re-doing
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seems to have solved all the problems I've been having.
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