NSLU2 won't boot into gentoo on HDD

Unclethommy · Guru Joined: 24 Jul 2006 Posts: 407

Hi there I have followed the instructions on the gentoo wiki about installing gentoo on a HDD and then asking the NSLU2 to boot it.

Unfortunately, even though I can chroot into the disk okay and everything seems to be working, when I plug the drive in and reboot the slug, the top LED flashes red and amber, I've left it for over an hour and still nothing.

I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on what to look for or how to diagnose what has gone wrong?

my rcupdate-show

poly_poly-man · Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 8:55 pm Post subject:

wait... where are you chrooting from?

what architecture is the gentoo you installed on said hard drive?

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Unclethommy · Guru Joined: 24 Jul 2006 Posts: 407

I ssh into slugos via ssh.

Then I chroot into /mnt/gentoo where the HDD is mounted as per instructions on the wiki.

I believe the architecture is "armeb-softfloat-linux-uclibc"

here is my make.conf

orvtech · Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 11:23 pm Post subject:

Unclethommy · Guru Joined: 24 Jul 2006 Posts: 407

I gave up and went down the debian slug root, works great, no compilation required and had the system up in nearly 20mins. I would recommend it if gentoo install doesnt work. Just a suggestion...

orvtech · Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 9:33 pm Post subject:

Unclethommy · Guru Joined: 24 Jul 2006 Posts: 407

I have settled for debian because gentoo seemed very hard to fix. I haven't noticed it being that slow, it runs nfs shares for portage, samba shares for my media and also a small website . The CPU utilisation barely gets over 50%. Have you un-underclocked the slug? Mine runs at 266Mhz like a charm. First thing I did was to yank out the correct resistor to get it running at full speed.

If you do somehow get gentoo working, I would be interested to know how (or a zip file of the root structure , to give me jump start

as I don't think I am experienced enough to know how to fix the problems it has). It would be nice to have all gentoo machines on my network eventually.

Good luck with it.

orvtech · Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 4:03 pm Post subject:

slackline · Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 9:22 am Post subject:

Hi,

I'm considering switching from gentoo on my slug (various problems, mainly I've hosed sshd and can't connect directly anymore, but also it seems the ARM architecture won't be maintained in gentoo see here).

Anyway, one feature I really liked was having portage sync'd on my slug overnight and then using it as a network portage for my desktop/laptop etc.

I've had a search around on the wiki and the forums, but can't find much on getting portage running under a different distro and was wondering if you guys are doing this already?

If so do you simply rsync with the portage mirrors or is there something more complex in the way portage sync's (when using eix-sync and/or emerge --sync) that would be missed by having a simple cron rsync command?

I'd imagine overlays have to be synced in a similar manner too.

Cheers,

slack
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Unclethommy · Guru Joined: 24 Jul 2006 Posts: 407

I use the following command which works great. It sits in a crontab line which runs at 3am in the morning each day

slackline · Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 10:04 am Post subject:

Thats great, thanks for the quick response Uncle. Should have paid closer attention to that thread in the first place :!:

Will read through that thread and I think I'll have a go at getting unslung/slugos set up (won't wipe the gentoo install just yet ;-)

)

Cheers,

slack
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