Soo many problems...back to mandrake.:(

jlambert · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 32

Well I'm currently sitting on Mandrake 9 although I would MUCH rather be with gentoo. I have tried and tried and I finally got it up with KDE and got mozilla installed.

Then I decided to put my sound card in which I already had the drivers in the kernel for so I shutdown and put the card in. Grub then sat at a screen showing the settings I have in grub and moved no further.

I rebooted and my hard drive didnt even come up on my mobo. If I power off completely and then back up my HD shows and grub freezes. So I put a cd in the drive and rebooted and gentoo starts up (keep in mind the cd was a mandrake install disc) I thought this was weird and waited for gentoo to come up but it froze at starting vcron.

Then after a couple more reboots I got gentoo to come all the way up and it froze, shut x windows down by itself, logged me off by itself and didn't allow me to login and the shutdown command was no longer in my permissions to run. Grub was also telling me the filesystem was corrupt and I ran the fsck and it came out clean.

I now have no idea where to go from here or what I did wrong. Please let me know if you have any ideas. For now I will sit safely in Mandrake so I can at least check my email and read the boards.

li1_getoo · l33t Joined: 20 Oct 2002 Posts: 661 Location: Queens , NY

as long as u learn somethin from gentoo install , its all good
when u learn a little more come back to us please :-)

p.s. this is not an actual problem but comments

jlambert · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 32

Trust me I WILL BE BACK. I learned more from gentoo then anything I've ever done with other distributions. I need to re-think which drivers I need so I can minimize everything to the bare basics. I have no clue why it freaked out but I will not rest until I get gentoo installed and running for months without anything happening.

jlambert · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 32

Questions.....

Should these be Primary or Logical partitions?
Swap
/boot
/

How long should it take to create a ReiserFS on a 19gig partition? I have had it freeze while doing "mkreiserfs /dev/hda3"

_venturax_ · Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2003 7:45 am Post subject:

I have installed gentoo on 4 machines now and loving it.
Swap (swap)
/boot (ext2)
/ (reiserfs)
partitions are all marked primary

I have made reiserfs on a 40gb partition and that took about 15 - 30 seconds.
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schmuck · n00b Joined: 21 May 2002 Posts: 31 Location: sthlm, sweden

I have the same setup as _venturax_.
making reiserfs on my 100Gig root partition took about 5 secs. I have a 120 Gig Westerm digital Caviar

jlambert · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 32

I am starting to wonder why making a reiserfs filesystem i left it over 5 hours and it just sat there.