Possible problem with kernel configuration

Despot Despondency · Apprentice Joined: 14 Mar 2009 Posts: 176

Hey,

I've been doing a fresh install on my computer and I'm having problems.

I managed to get to the end of the installation process without problem, but the kernel won't load on reboot.

I've configured the kernel several times before and frequently use pappy's kernel seeds http://kernel-seeds.org/, so I don't understand what is going wrong this time.

Anyway, how can I find out if it is a problem with the kernel.

Here is my config file (from /usr/src/linux-2.6.37-gentoo-r4/.config) http://pastebin.com/GmZUXtdD Are there any obvious problems that I've overlooked?

There doesn't seem to be a log file from the boot up (I looked in /var/log).

eccerr0r · Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 5:21 pm Post subject:

Please post the error message that it returns on boot... how far did it get? What's the last few messages it reports?

You mention there's no log file, how did you get the logfile? Using livecd to poke around there you mean? Or did it get that far so you can read it?
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DONAHUE · Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 5:45 pm Post subject:

if it hangs at init.early.sh; edit menuconfig to include:

Despot Despondency · Apprentice Joined: 14 Mar 2009 Posts: 176

Hi,

Thanks for your response.

I wasn't able to find the message log file from boot, I had to look around through the livecd.

When the computer boots it just stops halfway through loading the kernel. It doesn't give any obvious error messages. Is there a way to retrieve this text through the livecd?

I have since tried genkernel to see if it is a kernel problem or a hardware problem. When I boot the computer with the kernel image created by genkernel I get the following error messages

DONAHUE · Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 5:55 pm Post subject:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-880149.html discusses/fixes this problem "your real /dev is missing files"
digital camera or cell phone photo of hang screen posted to a photo site with url posted here and/or boot cd, mount gentoo partitions, cat or nano /mnt/gentoo/var/log/dmesg may help explicate the problem
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spiffy616 · n00b Joined: 01 Jul 2011 Posts: 1

I am installing gentoo in an Oracle vm environment. i have followed all the steps in the handbook up to genkernel. after genkernel has finished running i get an ERROR: Failed to compile the "bzImage" target... msg
at the prompt, i type in ls /boot/kernel* /boot/initramfs* as the handbook says to do. i get the report
ls: cannot access /boot/kernel*: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /boot/initramfs*: No such file or directory
what did i do wrong
what can i do to fix the problem without deleting the Oracle vm partition again.

DONAHUE · Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 3:17 pm Post subject:

boot the cd, mount the gentoo partitions, enter the chroot.