Changed box, I need serious help!

Cyberian-ZH · Apprentice Joined: 24 Jan 2005 Posts: 288

Hi,

My other computer is malfunctioning, and would take a few months until I receive replacement parts.

But I cannot live without a fully functional computer!!!

I am currently stuck in Knoppix Live-CD now. Because my Gentoo would not work properly in this computer.

I cannot get it to start X, or even ping.

My other computer's specs are:

AMD Athlon XP 2000+
ECS K7S7AG MOBO

And this computer's specs are:
AMD Duron 1.6 GHz
MSI KM4M-L

I plan to keep Gentoo on this computer. What do I have to do to here to make it all work?

*I am a newbie! Go easy on me, please!*
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petlab · Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 2:40 pm Post subject:

Is there room on the computer you have now, to put your other hard drive?

Like, put your Gentoo drive from the broken box, into the working box. Then you could set up dual boot, or something.

Give us some more details on what's wrong...
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yottabit · Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 3:59 pm Post subject:

I believe the kernel treats Athlon XP & Duron as the same, but maybe modern GCC doesn't through your CFLAGS. You might need to recompile world --deep with CFLAGS set to -march=k7 or some such.

Also ensure your kernel options are set correctly for the motherboard chipset on the second computer.

You can recompile your kernel and your packages from the LiveCD. Depending on how much might have gone wrong you might need to extract a Stage3 over your old system (be sure to backup /etc first).

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Cyberian-ZH · Apprentice Joined: 24 Jan 2005 Posts: 288

Again, I am *newbie* My installation was done by someone else over SSH. But this time, it is up to myself since I cannot get the connection working in Gentoo.

yottabit · Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 6:33 pm Post subject:

You can see your CFLAGS setting in /etc/make.conf: cat /etc/make.conf

If you extract the Stage3 over your system to get your compiler and Portage back in working order you may overwrite your configs (stored in the /etc directory) so that is why I suggested backing it up. You can back it up using tar, something like tar cvf /mnt/gentoo/root/etc_backup.tar /mnt/gentoo/etc from the LiveCD once you've mounted your filesystem.

You can follow the Gentoo Installation Handbook to extract the Stage3.

Once extracted and chrooted onto your existing partition, you can double-check your /etc/make.conf settings (nano -w /etc/make.conf) and then recompile all of your packages (if needed because the CFLAGS were set for "athlon-xp" instead of "k7") with emerge world --emptytree -a. Make sure you uncomment the CXXFLAGS too.

After recompiling you can skip ahead in the guide to unmount and reboot. Something like exit; cd /; umount /mnt/gentoo; shutdown -r now.

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Cyberian-ZH · Apprentice Joined: 24 Jan 2005 Posts: 288

And how do I mount?
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yottabit · Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 9:32 pm Post subject:

It's in the installation guide. Something like mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo ... of course hda3 may be different depending on which partition was used as the root partition on your system. You can fdisk -l /dev/hda to see the partitions.
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Cyberian-ZH · Apprentice Joined: 24 Jan 2005 Posts: 288

Okay, this is so awkward, I am replying with the text-browser!!!

The emerge world stopped to due an error:

Cyberian-ZH · Apprentice Joined: 24 Jan 2005 Posts: 288

Back in Knoppix. Here's the additional update:

1. My login/password doesn't work anymore. Both general account and su.

2. I got this message during boot:

yottabit · Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 11:17 pm Post subject:

Okay, the first error is likely because your CFLAGS and/or CXXFLAGS are set incorrectly.

The part about the filesystem is odd, but you can check it from the LiveCD: e2fsck /dev/hda3 or whichever partition needs checked...
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Cyberian-ZH · Apprentice Joined: 24 Jan 2005 Posts: 288

Where is the mistake?

yottabit · Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 2:24 pm Post subject:

Okay your CFLAGS seems correct, but just in case you have an older GCC try setting -march=i686 and see if there's a difference. If it still errors, you likely need GCC reinstalled from the Stage3.
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Cyberian-ZH · Apprentice Joined: 24 Jan 2005 Posts: 288

I didn't work.

Also, still cannot log in with user/pass.
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yottabit · Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 3:06 pm Post subject:

The Stage3 probably overwrote your /etc/passwd & /etc/shadow files which contain your user accounts and passwords. This is why I recommended you backup /etc. So now you should login with the LiveCD, mount your partition, and restore the saved files like this: cd /; tar xvf /mnt/gentoo/root/etc_backup.tar.

If after you've extracted the Stage3 over your system you still cannot get emerge to compile a package, I'm out of ideas... you might want to try using the LiveCD to back up your data to another disk or partition or getting the data off the system with sftp to another computer, and then reformat and reinstall...

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Cyberian-ZH · Apprentice Joined: 24 Jan 2005 Posts: 288

I can log in now. But cannot start x or get my network working. Also, there was an error about 'dma' or something.
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yottabit · Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 4:29 pm Post subject:

Okay, now that you're logged in can you remerge all your packages? emerge --emptytree -a world
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Cyberian-ZH · Apprentice Joined: 24 Jan 2005 Posts: 288

emerge stopped on the 2nd package.

How can I fix this?

gentoo_lan · Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 8:57 pm Post subject:

yottabit · Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 9:07 pm Post subject:

Check your DNS setting in /etc/resolv.conf to ensure you can resolve queries for the mirror servers.

One of the first merges you might want to try is mirrorselect and use it (man mirrorselect or mirrorselect -h) to find the fastest Gentoo mirrors from your location.

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