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Brok3n_Sword
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 Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 2:13 am Post subject: [Solved]A few n00b questions; any help appreciated! |
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Hello all! I must say, I've really enjoyed working with gentoo so far(trying to install it!). I've learned more about linux these past few hours then working with previous distributions like red hat, fedora, mandrake, etc. Anyway, I'm having a little problem with my installation.
My setup:
Hard Drives
120 GB WD HDD, this is where Windows XP is installed. (Second channel, master)
2 SATA Drives:
CH_0: 160 GB Seagate drive (storage)
CH_1: 250 GB WD Drive (Here's where I'm trying to install gentoo)
I have an AMD64 3500+ CPU, 1 GB RAM, ASUS K8V Deluxe mobo, Nvidia Geforce 6800 GT, and a Sound Blaster Audigy Value sound card.
I'm using an onboard ethernet controller, connected straight to my cable modem. There is no local network, just me.
First of all, I didn't know if I should use a stage 1 or stage 3 installation. I went with stage 3. I used, of course, the amd64_universal install cd. I skipped the setting up my network part in the handbook, because I figured I didn't need it. When I tried things like genkernel, it attempted to connect to the internet to download the latest one (I guess) and failed. Do I need to set up my ethernet card somehow? Also, in /mnt/grub/grub.conf, how should I set it up with my hard drives? I tried:
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default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(sd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.12 Gentoo r6
root (sd1,0)
ro kernel /kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/hda3
title=Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,2)
makeactive
chainloader +1
vga = 0x31B video=vesafb:ywrap
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And then installed grub with grub-install --no-floppy /dev/sdb
But grub didn't come up, even if I booted from the SATA drive. The last issue I had was configuring the modules. I tried "find /lib/modules/kernerl-2.6.12-gentoo-r6/ -type f -iname '*.o' -or -iname '*.ko'" But it could not find it, so I added no modules to automatically load. How important is that? I'm sorry if this is a long post, or spread out and incoherent. I'm very tired, but must figure this out! Thanks for any help.
One last thing: When I reboot, do I have to:
mount -t ext3 /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot
and..
chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
# env-update
# source /etc/profile
in order to get back to editing/installing my grub files?
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vladgrigorescu
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| Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 3:25 am Post subject: |
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Unfortunately, I don't know too much about SATA drives, so I can't really help you out with that part. If you have a network, then it should be pretty easy to connect to it, and if it doesn't cause any problems, I think it's probably a better idea to be online while doing it. You'll also have more up to date things, and won't need to bother updating things once you have installed everything (especially since it's been a while since the 2005.1 gentoo cd has been released). Hopefully, you should be able to get networking up and running by doing
If that seems to work (read: doesn't take more than 1-2 seconds), try pinging some things
| Code: | | ping -c 3 google.com |
If that works, you're all set! If you run into problems, read the network section in the manual, as that's probably the best resource. And yes, to reboot, that should do it for you! |
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localjoe
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| Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 5:05 am Post subject: |
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sounds like your network interface isn't up.
try ifconfig to see if you have an interface other than loopback
if not, you may need to load the appropriate module and restart the live CD's net script
lspci | grep net // should output if you have a network device (I'm guessing a Marvell gigabit)
modprobe forcedeth // then load the corresponding module
/etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart |
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markkuk
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| Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 10:31 am Post subject: Re: A few n00b questions; any help appreciated! |
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[quote="Brok3n_Sword"]
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default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(sd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.12 Gentoo r6
root (sd1,0)
ro kernel /kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/hda3
title=Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,2)
makeactive
chainloader +1
vga = 0x31B video=vesafb:ywrap
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In GRUB, hard drives are named hd0, hd1, ... even if they are SATA drives. Replace "sd1" with the correct GRUB disk name. "ro" and "vga=..." are options for the Linux kernel, move them to the kernel command line:
| Code: | | kernel /kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r1 ro root=/dev/hda3 vga = 0x31B video=vesafb:ywrap |
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vladgrigorescu
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| Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 12:43 am Post subject: |
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| If this solved your problems, please add [solved] to the thread topic. Thanks! |
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Brok3n_Sword
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| Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 3:15 pm Post subject: |
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| vladgrigorescu wrote: | | If this solved your problems, please add [solved] to the thread topic. Thanks! |
Thanks for all of the great advice guys. Once I got my connection setup, the rest was easy. Grub took a little work, but all in all this work has been worth it so far. |
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