Gentoo had better be worth the effort

agility · n00b Joined: 03 Sep 2003 Posts: 21 Location: SoFla

Day 3 of trying to get a bootup with gentoo stage3 grp.

Installed Redhat 9 - no problems.
Installed Debian - no problems
Can't install gentoo - going bald. :oops:

Looking through the user groups, there is probably more forum support than either red hat or debian - so I hope that gentoo will finally boot up.

After finally figuring out with help from the forum how to navigate through the install docs, gentoo almost boots, but the screen is full of garbage that makes reading the errors impossible.
At this point I don't know where to turn.
Any hints (is there anyway to step through the bootup process so that I can at least see where it's screwing up?)

Angry Geek · Apprentice Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 162 Location: .uk

Hi Agility,

What sort of garbage? How far have you got through the install, at what point do you get this garbage?

Any chance you can copy this text over?

Cheers!

agility · n00b Joined: 03 Sep 2003 Posts: 21 Location: SoFla

Cossins · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2003 4:13 pm Post subject:

Do you use the framebuffer? If you do, try not to, and if you don't, try doing so...
It's in the kernel config, search the forum for further information.

- Simon

SqueekRatty · n00b Joined: 06 Sep 2003 Posts: 27 Location: Texas

Im working on earning "N00B of the Year" lol
Ive been trying for a week to install gentoo......
zee small fast penguin is too fast for me!

So Ive decided to ask for advice before I try install attempt 14... :oops:

I hear the gurus laughing, yes lol, i am a n00b....
BUT i am determined!

So a simple question..
I have a Pentium4 1.8 GHz processor
I want to do gentoo like a man... from stage 1
Which CD ISO should I use?

Thats all for now
XP stands for eXtra Ponderous....
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Ekj530 · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2003 4:42 pm Post subject:

ok, I am trying myself--with little sucess I might add-- to do this, but, I can answer this one. Use the Gentoo Linux - Pentium 4 GRP Install Disk 1 at www.linuxiso.org make sure to check your md5sums. I got a bad one and that has contributed to half of my problems. Good luck!
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agility · n00b Joined: 03 Sep 2003 Posts: 21 Location: SoFla

Cossins · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2003 5:43 pm Post subject:

Yes, basically, but you need to do the following before chroot'ing:

rwallace · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2003 6:44 pm Post subject:

Chrooting to fix something that is broken (like an install) is just like in the install doc. Just skip the fdisk and untarring the stage file. Mount the partitions and mount proc. Then chroot. You got everything right but it should be /mnt/gentoo not /. Something like the following

SqueekRatty · n00b Joined: 06 Sep 2003 Posts: 27 Location: Texas

Code listing 8.6: Prepping and entering the chroot environment

# mount -t proc proc /mnt/gentoo/proc
# cp /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc/resolv.conf
# chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
# env-update
Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache...
# source /etc/profile
(The above points your shell to the new paths and updated binaries)

is this a documentation error?
There is no BIND proc in the install guide.
which is correct?

inquisitive rodent wants to know!
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Cossins · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2003 7:27 pm Post subject:

The effect is the same...
The bin-option "binds" the /proc-directory to the /mnt/gentoo/proc directory, while the other method mounts the proc-filesystem anew at the new location.

- Simon

agility · n00b Joined: 03 Sep 2003 Posts: 21 Location: SoFla

Ah Ha! getting somewhere.
Thanks guys,

booted from CD1
chrooted as per advice above
edited grub/grub.conf
I commented out the line

SqueekRatty · n00b Joined: 06 Sep 2003 Posts: 27 Location: Texas

On my next install attempt, i will try the bind proc command.
Heaven knows I've trid the other often enough! :idea:

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agility · n00b Joined: 03 Sep 2003 Posts: 21 Location: SoFla

Oh....
Is there a way to check that everything is unmounted prior to doing the reboot. I don't recall any warnings when I rebooted after fixing the grub.conf file.
Would df do it?

Paul ASI.

Cossins · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2003 8:47 pm Post subject:

Just type 'mount', it will give you a list of mounted block devices (e.g. partitions and disk drives)...

- Simon

agility · n00b Joined: 03 Sep 2003 Posts: 21 Location: SoFla

Going for a complete reinstall (again) to try and get past the corrupt /dev/hda3 (that was reiserfs formated.)

At least I should be able wiz through the entire build this time