Bootstrap.sh problems

[rickj]

Carpaski's fix works for me.

I found I had portage-2.0.46-r11, deleted the tarball, re-syncing loaded -r12, and two hours later stage 1 completed without problems.

Thanks to Carpaski, and all who contributed to this forum.

[handsomepete]

Ditto. After finding two (count 'em, two!) brand new but bad sticks of memory c/o a memtest86 bootdisk on a different computer (current PC doesn't have a floppy)) and getting -r12 everything is much better, although I'm also having the epatch problems with some gnome requirement.... no biggie, don't use a desktop much anyways. I assume that's nothing more than an ebuild problem or something silly that I'm doing, nothing critical. So, to sum up:

- Use -r12 or later
- Keep extra hardware handy if you can
- If make menuconfig complains about ncurses, env-update && source /etc/profile (if it indeed emerged)
- Keep your head on and don't do anything stupid and you should at least get through the install - if you get frustrated, go away and play some Grand Theft Auto or something and come back to it.
- These forums + searching are your best friend. Someone has always run into the same problem you're having.

[Nattie]

Well, after reformatting the ext3 partitions finally I GOT BOOTSTRAP RUNNING WITHOUT ANY ERRORS!!! YES!!!!!
Now I'm getting into one emerge system, but I need to know a few things about some steps on the documentation.
1 - I use the charset ISO-8859-1 / Latin-1 / BR-International keyboard layout. How do I configure it? I tried the br-l (br-a would be probably ABNT2 ) but it does not have things like the tilde working into vowels (like the ã html output would do).
2 - Can I use an alternative downloader to wget or can I only do it after the emerge system?
3 - If everything goes ok, what kernel source do you recommend? I am looking for optimizations and love having my system up-to-date, but I hate things crashing a lot - few crashes are ok, but FEW.
4 - How do I setup the kernel options or choose what to compile with ther kernel or like modules? (Yes, I am a kernel virgin )? I dont have RAID, but I have a Cd burner, ATA100 Hard disk, I use pppoe to connect to the internet and have some linux non-working hardware like a Creative Webcam, a Palm and a parallel scanner.. please, help me as Im absolutely virgin in kernel stuff. :)

Well, thanks in advance. I'm really grateful to all you who helped me getting thru the bootstrap problem. ;)
In the next chapter, you see the emerge system report. ;)

tks!


Nat

[gojuka]

I am having this same problem. Here's my story: My laptop blew up today ... OK, well, I broke it, I rendered it unbootable. But all my files were still intact so I figured I'd just start the build process over again without nixing my existing filesystems.

This is on a Dell Inspiron 3800 which has been running just dandy for many months.

All was well until I ran bootstrap.sh. bootstrap.sh started doing it's thing, and many packages were built, but very suddenly, after emerging gcc *I think* I started getting the same problem other people have reported.

If I try to run *any* command while I am chrooted into /mnt/gentoo, the command fails with "No such file or directory". But the files *are* there ... for example, trying to `ls` errors out but doing an `echo *` in /bin shows that it is there.

If I exit the chroot shell, I can see all the files in the mounted filesystem just fine.

This is seriously screwed up.

Mark

PS If I exit the chroot shell, I cannot get back in since it says that /bin/bash does not exist. I ran `strace chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash` and the execve("/bin/bash", ... fails with ENOENT.
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