[SOLVED] Can't boot after 2005.1 install

[jabster42]

Hi.

Well, this is my 5th time installing gentoo (2nd on this particular computer), and every other install but this one has gone perfectly.

This is my first 2005.1 install tho.

I have installed 2005.1 here, stage 3, everything in the install seemed to go fine. I backed up all the relevant info from my previous install (/etc, /boot) so that I could copy from them as I installed this time.

So I went thru the handbook step by step, compiled the kernel, going thru my old .config (2.6.11-r9) while configuring 2.6.12-r10. Grub installed with no problems.

Rebooted, and grub comes up, get a quick flash of text (booting gentoo...), screen blanks, some more text (memory something), then a blank screen, with my monitor light blinking. I am unable to really read any of the text.

I made one change to the kernel (/dev/support and mount at boot) and now the last text I see before it locks up is this:

[tornamodo]

you have problems with your framebuffer.

i'd strongly recommend, disabling all framebuffer options in the kernel config and after it boots only then you should be adding the eyecandy.

you've got 2 ways now:
1.1 Boot from the livecd, make a mount gentoo + boot + proc and then a chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
1.2 Then go to /usr/src/linux, make a "make menuconfig" - disable ALL framebuffer eyecandies - after that "mount /boot" and "make && make modules && make modules_install && make install"

2.1 (PREFERRED) Edit your grub lines (you get the grub boot screen - press 'e' to edit the line)
2.2 Delete all the framebuffer and/or vga options, press enter and then 'b' to boot that line.
if this doesn't work, go the way #1 and it will work!

i hope

[jabster42]

WEll, tornamodo, option 1 (I had already tried removing the "vga" and splashimage lines before posting) there seemed to work. Sorta.

I now start booting correctly, but get two errors during boot
1. could not start /sbin/devfsd (but it keeps going)
2.

[tornamodo]

hehe, the install is troublesome because its not easy to get all that stuff under control
but it makes fun every time you understand a bit more ... !

just take it easy

[jabster42]

FWIW, I skipped the whole fdisk section on the install, since I'm already partitioned from my previous gentoo install (2004.something).

Also, doing some more reading, I just emerged hotplug and coldplug (livecd->chroot). Still getting same error btw.

fstab:

[kimchi_sg]

[jabster42]

Ah. I see about why I had hda3 in chroot.

I am using default udev (I left /etc/conf.d/rc at "auto").

But the /dev stuff in my kernel config was the problem. Got rid of it, recompiled it, exited chroot, reboot->login prompt!

yea.

I think with first framebuffer problems, while trying different options, I added /dev stuff back in, then forgot to pull it out once I removed the framebuffer settings from the kernel.

Thanks for getting me thru this guys. This is the first time I've ANY problems installing gentoo.

Time to go compile kde3.5-beta1! (Or 3.4.2 since 3.5 apparently isn't available for x86 yet.)

thanks,
john


p.s. Your sig is wrong. There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who understand binary and those who do not.

[kimchi_sg]

[jabster42]

Aahh..

II sseeee..

HHeehh..


----JJoohhnn

[tornamodo]

In the Gentoo Linux Installation Handbook they say, a ext3 in the fstab needs to look like this:

[jabster42]

Actually, I never forgot to install hotplug/coldplug during the install. The install never tells you to install those. I just knew that I would eventually need them, and some other posts had mentioned them. I forget how exactly at the moment tho.

But I am up an running now. Compiling xorg-x11 at the moment.

thx for the help.

-john