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catch23
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 Posted: Sat May 03, 2003 9:31 pm Post subject: first boot problems |
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Just installed gentoo, and after the first reboot, I have two problems...
1. it says I need to install DEVFS support and to read the manual for it...I installed from the manual (in Docs section) and saw nothing of it...what do I need to do?
2. I get an error from eth0 saying I need to set a valid hostname in /etc/hostname ...that's not a file...I set the default gateway to 192.168.0.1 in the /etc/conf.d/net file...does it not like a gateway running Windows? |
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magnet
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| Posted: Sat May 03, 2003 9:41 pm Post subject: |
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hello,
hang on , you're nearly done.
for your devfs problems, you'll need add support for it your kernel, in filesystem section :
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File systems --->
[*] /dev file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)
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for the hostname problem , a writing something like myputer.mydomain.com in /etc/hostname should fix your problem.
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echo "myputer.mydomain.com" > /etc/hostname
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Esben
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| Posted: Sat May 03, 2003 9:48 pm Post subject: Re: first boot problems |
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| catch23 wrote: | Just installed gentoo, and after the first reboot, I have two problems...
1. it says I need to install DEVFS support and to read the manual for it...I installed from the manual (in Docs section) and saw nothing of it...what do I need to do?
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Have you enabled the devfs file system in your kernel? This is usually all you have to do...
| catch23 wrote: | | 2. I get an error from eth0 saying I need to set a valid hostname in /etc/hostname ...that's not a file...I set the default gateway to 192.168.0.1 in the /etc/conf.d/net file...does it not like a gateway running Windows? |
You need to have a hostname for your computer. Really, and ideally, it should be a real name (like linux.domain.org), though it doesn't really matter for most applications as long as it looks real.
I suppose you could set it to localhost or something; I have never tried.
To set it, use the "hostname" command:
| Code: | | hostname linux.microsoft.com |
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catch23
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| Posted: Sat May 03, 2003 9:51 pm Post subject: |
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okay, got devfs done...
so for /etc/hostname ...do I just need to put in a machine IP like 192.168.0.2 and a name? ...again the file doesn't exist..shouldn't it be /etc/hosts? |
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catch23
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| Posted: Sat May 03, 2003 10:09 pm Post subject: |
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maybe I didn't fix it...I selected /dev file system support in menuconfig ...and did a make dep after I exited and saved...still gives me that error on boot  |
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| Posted: Sat May 03, 2003 10:12 pm Post subject: |
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you'll need to do a make dep clean bzImage to rebuild your kernel with devfs support.
then to install the new kernel, like you did in the install.
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sn4ip3r
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| Posted: Sat May 03, 2003 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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| catch23 wrote: | | maybe I didn't fix it...I selected /dev file system support in menuconfig |
did you select the | Code: | | [*] Automatically mount at boot |
option ?
| catch23 wrote: | | ...and did a make dep... |
you did compile the whole kernel with | Code: | | make clean && make dep bzImage modules modules_install |
not just ? |
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Esben
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| Posted: Sat May 03, 2003 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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don't forget to
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cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/bzImage
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If you're using Lilo, run lilo at this point Grub should be ok. I'm assuming that your kernel is at /boot/bzImage as it would be if you followed install docs to the letter. If not, modify the above as appropritate  [/code]
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catch23
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| Posted: Sat May 03, 2003 11:09 pm Post subject: |
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I was doing just make dep..but I just did the whole thing and it didn't do a thing...
And I'm still getting an error when it tries to load eth0...it says it had a problem starting needed services...'netmount' not started |
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| Posted: Sun May 04, 2003 12:54 am Post subject: |
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if there are no more devfs problems ,
you can try to do /etc/init.d/netmount start, and show us the output.
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