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Kippro
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 Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 1:17 pm Post subject: Screen scrambled |
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I've been following the install guide and I've bumped in to several problems along the way. Still curious on gentoo I refuse to give up.
My latest problem is that after rebooting for the first time the screen gets "scrambled". I can see thats there something loading at startup but can't read the text. Alse there is no GRUB "screen" coming up at boot??
What can I do to resolve this problem?
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| Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 1:24 pm Post subject: |
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Kippro,
Can you post your grub.conf and tell us about your partition layout please
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Kippro
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| Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 1:33 pm Post subject: |
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| NeddySeagoon wrote: | Kippro,
Can you post your grub.conf and tell us about your partition layout please |
Of course, but I have to ask you how to switch from the liveCD 
(Sorry for all the newbie questions) |
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NeddySeagoon
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Kippro,
Boot the liveCD and moount your boot (not root) partition on /mnt/gentoo
grub.conf is than at /mnt/gentoo/grub/grub.conf
There is no need to get back into the chroot just yet
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Kippro
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| Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 4:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Kippro wrote: | | NeddySeagoon wrote: | Kippro,
Can you post your grub.conf and tell us about your partition layout please |
Of course, but I have to ask you how to switch from the liveCD
(Sorry for all the newbie questions) |
/mnt/gentoo/grub/grub.conf looks like this:
default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(hda0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo Linux 2.4.28-r8
root (hd0,0)
kernel /kernel-2.4.28-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda3 udev
initrd /initrd-2.4.28-gentoo-r8 |
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Kippro
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| Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 4:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Kippro wrote: | | NeddySeagoon wrote: | Kippro,
Can you post your grub.conf and tell us about your partition layout please |
Of course, but I have to ask you how to switch from the liveCD
(Sorry for all the newbie questions) |
/mnt/gentoo/grub/grub.conf looks like this:
default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(hda0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo Linux 2.4.28-r8
root (hd0,0)
kernel /kernel-2.4.28-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda3 udev
initrd /initrd-2.4.28-gentoo-r8 |
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 8:02 pm Post subject: |
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Kippro,
That looks good.
Now to determine if its the kernel or grub. At the start, do you see a picture with the text | Code: | | Gentoo Linux 2.4.28-r8 |
throug it?
Then the screen goes funny aftwerwards when the kernel runs ?
Or is the picture scrambled from the very start ?
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Maedhros
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| Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 8:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Kippro wrote: | | splashimage=(hda0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz |
This looks like the culprit. It should work if you remove the a above.
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sosueme
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I had a similar problem with the splash image. This fixed it.
Thanks
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Kippro
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| Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 12:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Maedhros wrote: | | Kippro wrote: | | splashimage=(hda0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz |
This looks like the culprit. It should work if you remove the a above. |
Solved the problem for me too.
Now I get tons of "Module not available"-messages and a message that says that /dev/hda3 is not valid...
Can anyone give me a hint on how to go about?
Isn't there a easier way to install gentoo??? |
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 12:23 pm Post subject: |
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Kippro,
The /dev/hda3 ... message is probably caused by a wrong entry in /etc/fstab
The root directory line should start /dev/hda3, not /dev/ROOT.
Fix the /dev/SWAP and /dev/BOOT too, if they are there. Also check the filesystem type.
Its probabay xfs for root. Put in the filesystem you used on your root partition.
Modules not available errors can be caused by your kernel build. You may have built the code into the kernel, you mat have skipped the | Code: | | make modules_install |
kernel build step or even not configured the modules.
will show you what modules are made for your kernel. Having none, is not always an error.
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Kippro
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| Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 12:58 pm Post subject: |
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| NeddySeagoon wrote: | Kippro,
The /dev/hda3 ... message is probably caused by a wrong entry in /etc/fstab
The root directory line should start /dev/hda3, not /dev/ROOT.
Fix the /dev/SWAP and /dev/BOOT too, if they are there. Also check the filesystem type.
Its probabay xfs for root. Put in the filesystem you used on your root partition.
Modules not available errors can be caused by your kernel build. You may have built the code into the kernel, you mat have skipped the | Code: | | make modules_install |
kernel build step or even not configured the modules.
will show you what modules are made for your kernel. Having none, is not always an error. |
The root directory line starts with /dev/hda3, filesystem ext3.
Boot is /dev/hda1 and Swap is /dev/hda2...
Any idea what to do next? |
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| Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 1:14 pm Post subject: |
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Kippro,
Please post the exact text of the error.
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