[SOLVED]System Boots, but nothing really works after that.

omega708 · n00b Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 30

I am building a new system:
3.0GHz HT Intel Chip
ASUS MB with onboard SATA (INTEL 82801EB (ICH5) SATA Controller)

Yadda Yadda Yadda.

Anyhow, I have built to Gentoo Boxes before and never had any REAL problems, but....
This system gets to GRUB and selects then boots.

Once it does, I can login, but I can't even run commands like "ls" my LVM Partition is no where to be found, and any time I try to run a command I get some pretty crazy messages.

root@apollo root #ls
ls: error while loading shared libraries: libgpm.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I know some things are failing to start on boot but they scroll so fast I cannot see what they were. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

-JLG
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Evileye · l33t Joined: 06 Aug 2003 Posts: 782 Location: Toronto

Use the command "dmesg" if you can. It will show you what happens during boot.

omega708 · n00b Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 30

I can use dmesg but can only view what is on the screen... and I can't pipe it to less or anything like that.
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omega708 · n00b Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 30

It does however say that it has mounted root readonly. But if nothing else it seems that it is recognizing my SATA drives... I guess it has to since it is booting from the SATA disk.
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omega708 · n00b Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 30

It appears that i can pipe dmesg to grep but I don't know what to look for....
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Naib · Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2005 9:23 pm Post subject:

for starters grep for "error" might flag something up
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omega708 · n00b Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 30

well i did try that one

however, it didn't return anything
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omega708 · n00b Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 30

okay, I figured out if I hold down shift and hit pageup I can scroll back up... It is failing to load several modules starting with dm-mod... and there are several others.

I thought I had compiled all of that support directly into the kernel, so I am not sure why it is trying to load them...

Thoughts???
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Evileye · l33t Joined: 06 Aug 2003 Posts: 782 Location: Toronto

Evileye · l33t Joined: 06 Aug 2003 Posts: 782 Location: Toronto

Did you compile them as modules or as part of the kernel, if as modules try and compile it as part of the kernel.

omega708 · n00b Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 30

Okay i have it down to
"SOME LOCAL FILESYSTEM FAILED TO MOUNT"
specifically the ones managed by LVM....

/var, /tmp, /usr, /opt, /home

However, I am pretty certain that all of the appropriate options were set as "*" and not "M" in my menuconfig.

-JLG
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omega708 · n00b Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 30

Yeah, I have the LVM, SATA, Device Mapper, etc all compiled in.
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omega708 · n00b Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 30

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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Sven Vermeulen · Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 9:25 am Post subject:

You don't need LVM, LVM is for the (old) LVM1. Just "Multiple devices driver support" and "Device-mapper support" is sufficient.

Is sys-fs/lvm2 installed on your system?

omega708 · n00b Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 30

Yes, I did emerge LVM2 during my install process.
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omega708 · n00b Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 30

I would be more than happy to post any config info needed to help solve this problem. Just let me know what you need to see.
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omega708 · n00b Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 30

When booting from the live cd I had to run gentoo docache in order for it to boot. Do I need something like that(or possibly doscsi) in my grub.conf?

EDIT: I tried both of those to no avail... I am about ready to give up on this one. I have no Idea why it isn't working....

:cry:

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omega708 · n00b Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 30

383 views... I guess no one knows what needs to be done.

I don't suppose there could have been something wrong with the version of LVM2 that was emerged...

I am just at a loss here.
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omega708 · n00b Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 30

I found that this had been added to the LVM docs..... after I had printed my copy and installed.... Exactly how do I install the latest version? I just just emerge lvm2 again?

Warning: The LVM2 available on the 2005.0 installation CDs is erroneously linked dynamically against a library (libgpm) which resides in /usr. This means you cannot have your /usr in an LVM environment as well. Either install the latest version or version 2.0.33 (not -r1) which are built statically.
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omega708 · n00b Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 30

Okay, I installed an "approved" version of LVM and my system still isn't running. I am trying to decide if I want to start over completely over with a 2004.3 CD...

I am more than frustrated at this point, as I have been screwing around with this thing for over a week.

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omega708 · n00b Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 30

On one last ditch effort I decided to scour my lvm.conf file...

as it turns out the entry that the LVM2 Docs say to add to prevent scanning the CDROMs is what caused the problem.
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