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Agam
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 Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 1:55 am Post subject: Problems after rebooting. |
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I Just finished going through the instalation and reached the point where you reboot, and remove the cd. When it boots it displays a bunch of gibberish. There is text but the screen is filled with hundreds of dots/dashes making it impossible to read anything. It scrolls quite a bit of text then what looks like a red asterix is displayed. I can't read all of it but it appears to say "The root (possibly boot) device..*unreadable* not detected.
Please specify a device to boot or shell *unreadable*"
Everything else is unreadable.
Can anyone give me a hand with this |
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Ma3oxuct
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| Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 2:28 am Post subject: |
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Ok, it sounds like your grub configuration is not pointing to the correct partition (/).
chroot back into you system from cdrom and tell us your /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/grub.conf...unless you wrote them out already. |
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jmbsvicetto
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| Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 3:15 am Post subject: |
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Hi.
You should comment the splashimage line until you're able to boot into your new system. After everything is working, you can enable it again.
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Agam
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| Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 5:27 am Post subject: |
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Thanks, commenting out the splash image cleaned up the screen.
Here is the fstab:
/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults, noatime 1 2
/dev/hda3 / ext3 noatime 01
/dev/hda2 none swap sw 00
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto, user 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs nodev, nosuid, noexec 0 0
and the grub.conf:
default 0
timeout 15
title = Gentoo Linux 2.6.14-r2
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.14-gentoo-r2 root=/dev/ram0 init=/
initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.14-gentoo-r2 |
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jmbsvicetto
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| Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 9:18 am Post subject: |
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| Agam wrote: | Thanks, commenting out the splash image cleaned up the screen.
Here is the fstab:
| Code: | /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults, noatime 1 2
/dev/hda3 / ext3 noatime 01
/dev/hda2 none swap sw 00
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto, user 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs nodev, nosuid, noexec 0 0 |
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I suggest you replace the last two lines with
| Code: | proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs nodev, nosuid, noexec 0 0 |
Although there is no error in your /etc/fstab, if one day you happen to have any problem accessing proc or tmpfs you'll get the cryptic messages that "none is busy". This way you'll get an error stating that "proc is busy" or "tmpfs is busy".
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and the grub.conf:
| Code: | default 0
timeout 15
title = Gentoo Linux 2.6.14-r2
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.14-gentoo-r2 root=/dev/ram0 init=/
initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.14-gentoo-r2 |
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Your kernel line has been cut off! Try using the following
| Code: | default 0
timeout 15
#splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/gentoo.xpm.gz
title = Gentoo Linux 2.6.14-r2
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.14-gentoo-r2 root=/dev/ram0 real_root=/dev/hda3
initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.14-gentoo-r2 |
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