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insertfunkhere
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 Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 2:20 pm Post subject: 2 install issues: root password & DMA |
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I just installed Gentoo, using the 2005.0 live CD, on a system of mine. Everything went swimmingly (after I realized that I had accidentally left in a "debug" USE-flag, which caused some weird looking problems) until I rebooted.
A) As the system booted up, I repeatedly got messages that my DMA was turned off, even though I had turned i on during the install and enabled it in my kernel. What gives? How can I fix this?
B) More importantly: at the login prompt, I typed in 'root' and the password I had set during the install. This returned a 'login incorrect.' I popped the live CD back in, and tried to reset the password, but it didn't make any difference. I have no idea why this might be happening... any clues? |
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mathgeek
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insertfunkhere
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| Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 2:58 pm Post subject: |
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| no, i did a stage 1 install. |
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loki99
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| Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 3:08 pm Post subject: |
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take a look at "/etc/securetty". it should look somehow like this:
| Quote: | # /etc/securetty: list of terminals on which root is allowed to login.
# See securetty(5) and login(1).
vc/1
vc/2
vc/3
vc/4
vc/5
vc/6
vc/7
vc/8
vc/9
vc/10
vc/11
vc/12
tty1
tty2
tty3
tty4
tty5
tty6
tty7
tty8
tty9
tty10
tty11
tty12
tts/0
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just a wild guess though!  |
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insertfunkhere
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| Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 3:30 pm Post subject: |
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yes! that did it. now to figure out how to have DMA turned on for hda and hdb....
loki99: thanks for the suggestion. I just copied your example of /etc/securetty. Out of curiosity/desire to be more secure, what are the vc/1, vc/2 terminals? |
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loki99
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| Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 5:13 pm Post subject: |
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| insertfunkhere wrote: | | yes! that did it. now to figure out how to have DMA turned on for hda and hdb.... |
glad it helped! 
what did you enable in your kernel? does it look like this:
| Quote: | Device Drivers --->
ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support --->
[*] Use PCI DMA by default when available
[*] Enable DMA only for disks |
use "Enable DMA only for disks "also, it should help when DMA fails. and perhaps it also helps to take a look at this
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loki99: thanks for the suggestion. I just copied your example of /etc/securetty. Out of curiosity/desire to be more secure, what are the vc/1, vc/2 terminals? |
vc stands for virtual console, which you find under F1 to F12, if thats what you mean. |
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