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riopurus
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 Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2005 12:40 am Post subject: boot problems |
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i am installing gentoo 2.6.12-r-6 on a compaq armada E500 pentium3 (6th try)
i am able to get to the reboot stage but at this point i recive the Error 15 : File not found
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
what have i done wrong?
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jmbsvicetto
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Hi.
You have an error in your GRUB config. The kernel name or the initrd name are not correct. You need to update the /boot/grub/grub.conf file. If you need assistance post the contents here.
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riopurus
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| Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2005 2:47 am Post subject: boot problems |
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thx for the quick reply!!!
here is the grub file i used /boot/grub/grub.conf :
default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.12-r6
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/hda3 |
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ellotheth
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Can you post the output of as well?
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riopurus
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| Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2005 4:23 am Post subject: |
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df -h yields the following:
tmpfs 125M 3.6M 122M 3% /
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 600M 680M 0 M 100% /MNT/CDROM
/dev/loop/0 42M 42M 0M 100 /MNT/LIVECD
udev 125M 732K 125M 1% /DEV
cachedir 42M 42M 0 100% /MNT/LIVECD/LIB/SPLASH/CACHE
tmpfs 125M 3.5M 122M 3% /LIB/FIRMWARE
tmpfs 125M 0 125M 0% /USR/PORTAGE
LET ME KNOW IF I SHUOULD PROVIDE ADDITIONAL INFO
THANKS AGAIN |
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sonicbhoc
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you used the kernel name from the install guide! you're not supposed to do that, you're supposed to use the kernel that you installed! for instance, I think it's:
kernel-2.6.14-gentoo-r3 now. so you should boot the liveCD, chroot, and go to /usr/src/linux. Then you type | Code: | | cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/kernel-2.6.14-gentoo-r3 |
and make sure that all of your grub.conf filenames match the names of you computer files. |
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jmbsvicetto
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Another way to do that is to boot with the live-cd and mout the partitions. Then see what version of the kernel you have installed and what you've called your kernel in /boot.
| Code: | # ls -l /usr/src
# ls -l /boot |
The kernel version is the one pointed by the linux symlink. You can determine the name you've given to your kernel by the files in /boot. It should be one of the largest files and if you followed convention is either bzImage, vmlinuz or kernel-*. Then change the name of the kernel in /boot if you feel like to and edit grub.conf to reflect the kernel name.
Also, if you use a /boot partition make sure that it's mounted before you copy your kernel. You can check if your kernel is in the right place by doing
| Code: | # umount /boot
# ls -l /boot
# mount /boot
# ls -l /boot |
Your kernel should appear with /boot mounted and not with it unmounted.
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riopurus
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| Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 3:10 am Post subject: |
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thx
i redid everything again and can proceed thru the reboot stage but get a localhost login prompt
is it AT THIS POINT I SHOULD INSTALL THE packages CD??
thx for the help on my?
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nardinc
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I belive that you need to login as "root" and continue with the installation. You should have made a password already for root. If you are following along in the handbook, you should be at step 11, Finalizing Your Gentoo Installation.
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=11 |
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riopurus
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| Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 6:06 pm Post subject: installing packages |
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i have installed gentoo on my laptop compaq armada E500 and now i am experiencing a problem when i emerge kde or gnome as in step 11.b
i mount the cdrom and read the cd from the disk
i am doing a networkless install
calculating dependencies completes normally
but in the emerge (1 of 91) media-libs/fontconfig-2.3.2 it tries to download from the internet??? rather than from the cd??
i think i am close to finalizing this install
could someone help
thanks in advance
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meph84
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Do you have your boot directory on a separate partition?
I do not know what files are on the universal cd, so I cannot be sure... but to me it seems that the file is simply missing. What do you want to emerge?
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jmbsvicetto
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riopurus,
have you done an emerge --sync on this system? If you did, you won't be able to use the packages CD, as your system will try to emerge newer packages that are not on the CD. If you have updated your portage tree, the purpose of running emerge --sync, you will have to get the updated packages from the Internet. If you can't download files from the Internet into your system, you'll have to download them into another system and then move them into your new system.
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rahvege
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| Code: | | kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/hda3 |
that part of your code is incorrect. you have the wrong name of your kernel.
restart on ur livecd , mount directories again chroot find out your kernel name.
Don't remember where exactly it is located but it should say somewhere in the installation handbook.
I had the same exact problem as you, So I'm pretty sure that this will be what is wrong.
In my case it was that my kernel was 2.6.14 instead of 2.6.12.
I hope this will fix your problems |
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schneider707
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| Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 1:02 am Post subject: |
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type this in to find out what ur kernel and initramfs names are.
| Code: | | ls /boot/kernel* /boot/initramfs* |
Then....use my grub.conf if you want....works perfectly
| Code: | default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.12 Gentoo r6
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/hda3
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Just make sure that where it says root (hd0,0) (know that this is really ur boot partition), that thats where your boot partition is located....and also change the kernel name if it differs
Hope that helps....I just figured this stuff out today =P |
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bdw
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| Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 3:59 am Post subject: boot question |
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everytime I try to do a install I get about 64% and then it does nothing else can any one help? I am using amd 2400+
60 gig hhd, 1 gig ram, ati radeon 320m, 802.11g wireless help please................. |
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