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IM [H]ard
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 Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2005 3:11 am Post subject: bootstrap failure w/2004.2 |
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I have finally solved problems w/make.conf, and chrooting. Now that I Try to bootstrap, I get this error:
| Code: | | * Error: '' does not exist. Exiting. |
What the heck? This is ver 2004.2 on an e-machines m6809. Any idea what went wrong? |
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slycordinator
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| Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2005 6:11 am Post subject: |
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| Without knowing what part of the bootstrap this happend in we can't even start to help you. |
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IM [H]ard
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| Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2005 1:44 pm Post subject: |
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| slycordinator wrote: | | Without knowing what part of the bootstrap this happend in we can't even start to help you. |
Sorry, still a newb. The first one, from a stage one to stage two.
| Code: | cd /usr/portage
scripts/bootstrap.sh
* Error: '' does not exist. Exiting. |
The first one ever starting from a stage one tarball. |
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kimchi_sg
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| Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2005 11:36 pm Post subject: |
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| What 2004.2 installation components are you using? In other words, are you using the 2004.2 install CD, the 2004.2 stage 1 tarball, or both? |
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IM [H]ard
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| Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 2:07 am Post subject: |
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| kimchi_sg wrote: | | What 2004.2 installation components are you using? In other words, are you using the 2004.2 install CD, the 2004.2 stage 1 tarball, or both? |
both. |
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kimchi_sg
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| Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 4:59 am Post subject: |
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| IM [H]ard wrote: | | kimchi_sg wrote: | | What 2004.2 installation components are you using? In other words, are you using the 2004.2 install CD, the 2004.2 stage 1 tarball, or both? |
both. |
Please use a 2005.1 tarball if you are doing a networked install. 2004.2 tarball is totally out of date.
You can still use the 2004.2 CD, just change the tarball. |
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IM [H]ard
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| Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Oh, I didn't know that. I have tried the 2005.0 and 2005.1 universal cd's, but they won't allow me to use my keyboard after the initial boot to the livecd. I'll read up on how to do that and try it. I'll let ya know how it goes. btw, I downloaded and tried that gui installer, and it acctually gave me full use of my keyboard, is there a way to do a manual install from it? |
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slycordinator
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| Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 6:27 pm Post subject: |
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| IM [H]ard wrote: | | Oh, I didn't know that. I have tried the 2005.0 and 2005.1 universal cd's, but they won't allow me to use my keyboard after the initial boot to the livecd. I'll read up on how to do that and try it. |
All you need to do is:
1) boot from the older minimal/universal livecd
2) Follow install guide
3) When it mentions a stage tarball download the 2005.1 tarball
4) unpack the tarball as you would normally
5) Continue following directions from there
Also, since you'll be using the 2005.1 tarball you should use the most current install guide (the one that's on the website rather than the one on your cd). |
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IM [H]ard
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| Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 1:52 am Post subject: |
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| slycordinator wrote: | | IM [H]ard wrote: | | Oh, I didn't know that. I have tried the 2005.0 and 2005.1 universal cd's, but they won't allow me to use my keyboard after the initial boot to the livecd. I'll read up on how to do that and try it. |
All you need to do is:
1) boot from the older minimal/universal livecd
2) Follow install guide
3) When it mentions a stage tarball download the 2005.1 tarball
4) unpack the tarball as you would normally
5) Continue following directions from there
Also, since you'll be using the 2005.1 tarball you should use the most current install guide (the one that's on the website rather than the one on your cd). |
Ok, that worked beautifully. All the way to the grub install, and then reboot. I still have a lot of reading to do on what different variables to use everywhere and such, just more work, ohh well. Only one problem now...
How do I boot to my new gentoo install? I did this all on my e-machines laptop m6809, on an 80 gb external usb 2.0 hard drive. I think I saw something around here, I'll do some looking around. BTW, since windows xp is on a different drive altogether, should I have included :
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rootnoverify (hd0/5)
makeactive
chainloader +1 |
to the end of grub.conf at all? |
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slycordinator
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| Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 2:25 am Post subject: |
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| IM [H]ard wrote: | How do I boot to my new gentoo install? I did this all on my e-machines laptop m6809, on an 80 gb external usb 2.0 hard drive. I think I saw something around here, I'll do some looking around. BTW, since windows xp is on a different drive altogether, should I have included :
| Code: | title=Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0/5)
makeactive
chainloader +1 |
to the end of grub.conf at all? |
That won't work at all.
the "/" should be a "," and will only work assuming windows is installed on the 4th partition of your first drive. |
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IM [H]ard
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| Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 2:42 am Post subject: |
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My mistake, it was a ",". So I guess I should take that out then. I am still looking for a way to boot to this external usb hard drive. I am not sure if upgrading my bios will give me that option even...
I tried creating a boot disk, but woulden't let me boot to the usb drive either. Maybe I will try playing w/the jumper. The thing I don't get is why my bios does not see the drive. I have a boot option of "external devices" and it can see my usb floppy in bios, but not the hard drive the laptop came with placed in an external enclosure... |
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IM [H]ard
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| Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 5:58 am Post subject: |
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| Well, all in all I could not get my computer to boot from my external drive, grr. So I started from scratch on a seperate partition on my internal drive. But When I try to boot gentoo, I get nothing but a blank screen. I did not declare any use variables until after the bootstrap because I remember reading somewhere that doing use variables before bootstraping would cause problems. And ideas? |
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slycordinator
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| Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 4:34 pm Post subject: |
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| You probably get a blank screen because the "splashimage" line refers to a non-existent partition/device. |
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IM [H]ard
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| Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 4:54 am Post subject: |
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| slycordinator wrote: | | You probably get a blank screen because the "splashimage" line refers to a non-existent partition/device. |
You mean that that would make it stop boot? I thought it would just skip it if it wasn't there. Can I just remove that line? |
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IM [H]ard
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| Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 6:35 am Post subject: |
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| Well I took the splash out of the grub.conf, and now I get the contents of the grub.conf flashed for a half a second on boot. ThenI get the usual blank screen. Any ideas? |
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nixnut
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| Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 4:43 pm Post subject: |
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What does your grub.conf look like?
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IM [H]ard
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| Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz (tried removing this, made no difference)
title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.11
root (hd0,0)
kernel /kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r9 root=/dev/hda3 vga=0x318 video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap
title=Windows XP Pro
rootnoverify (hd0,5)
makeactive
chainloader +1
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| Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 7:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | kernel /kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r9 root=/dev/hda3 vga=0x318 video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap |
Try removing the vga= and video= parts for now. If that works you either have the wrong settings or the wrong framebuffer driver. Plenty of threads on that, so search the forums a bit in that case.
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IM [H]ard
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| Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Hmm, I read in the manual that those had to be in there. I'll try that and see what happens...thanks...later:) |
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IM [H]ard
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| Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 11:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Well, that sort of worked. I can see things on the screen now, but stops at "io scheduler cfq registered". I think I will look around at that stuff, and start a new thread. As this one has gone way off of the title's topic. Thanks all...later:) |
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IM [H]ard
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| Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 8:02 am Post subject: |
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| Opps, my bad. I was re-reading the manual. And I guess your not even supposed to set those commands of you used a non-genkernel install. |
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