Reboot after Gentoo install problems

Donovan

Hi, I've done my second Gentoo install, this time on a Cyrix 200mhz

for firewall and other duties.

It does boot, but something is definately a miss:

fifo · Guru Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Posts: 437

No sure what's wrong, sounds like it might be a kernel configuration problem. About the terminal, one obvious thing to check is that /usr/share/terminfo/l/linux exists. You could also try remerging ncurses.

Donovan · Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2003 4:33 am Post subject: Wowzers

Wow, talk about hilarious.

All my problems were figured out in a very quick succession.

Your suggestion regarding the terminal was correct. There was no /usr/share/terminfo directory at all, even though emerge claimed that ncurses was installed. Remerging ncurses solved that problem.

My networking was down because it was an ISA card that required the IO address passed to it. A simple edit to /etc/modules.autoload adding "io=0x280" to the ne module corrected that.

Since I then had a fully functional terminal, I was able to check the kernel... Gentoo complained about the lack of DEVFS support because for whatever reason, there WAS no DEVFS support enabled... :oops:

Perhaps vanilla-sources actually defaults this way? I wouldn't have disabled it on purpose...

I still get the modprobe complaints about char-major-10-135, but I'm sure it's either something that I can ignore or something that is easily fixed.

Thanks!!

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slartibartfasz · Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2003 2:45 pm Post subject:

'char-major-10-135' is your RTC device (real time clock) enable it in the kernel and the error should vanish...
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rtn · Guru Joined: 15 Nov 2002 Posts: 427