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Kirja
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 Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2003 7:19 pm Post subject: Gentoo Hangs on 1st Boot |
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After installing Gentoo 1.4 (Athlon-20030911) using stage3 and booting for the first time, my system hangs after displaying the following
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usb-ohi.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xcc837000, IRQ 11
usb-ohi.c: usb-0U:02.1, PCI device 10de:0067 (nVidia Corporation)
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
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I had no problems booting with the live cd and now the only access to my system is chrooting via this.
I have searched the forums and found many other cases identical to this but I am still unable to fix my problem. I am using the gentoo-sources (2.4.20-r6) kernel and used genkernel to configure and install. I dont feel confident enough yet to cofigure the kernel myself.
I also emerged the nforce video, sound and network packages.
I have read that people have not had this problem when using the vanilla kernel sources. Should I reinstall and use this kernel?
If you need to view any of my Gentoo config files, could someone please tell me how I can save them to a floppy that windows will read. 
Thanks
P.S. Great forums you got here, used them on various occasions during install config with great success. |
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slarti`
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| Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2003 7:34 pm Post subject: |
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I had the same problem with genkernel - The best solution is just to 'roll your own'. It's nowhere near as tough as you'd think - and you can use:
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To use the same config as the livecd.
Manual kernel configuration is very well documented in the installation docs... You've got to have a bash at manual kernel configuration some time... and the worst that could happen is that you make an unbootable kernel, and have to do what you are doing at the moment; chroot in from the livecd.
Have fun 
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Curious
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| Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2003 11:27 pm Post subject: |
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| sonic_ wrote: | | Code: | | cd /usr/src/linux && cat /proc/config > .config && make menuconfig |
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Hai. If you're going to move .config files between possibly different kernel trees, you can also try "make oldconfig" - even if going from a newer tree to an older one. This will ask you to answer all the questions that have changed between the two, usually the defaults will be fine, but it lays it all out in the open, and then you can use menuconfig just to check everything once more at the end.
Very convenient if you don't really want to change that much of what you already have configured.
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moshiach
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An even easier way is to use genkernel --config which still follows a nice easy script for linux newbies, but still gives you the make menuconfig menu so you can modify the kernel parameters. It's almost foolproof, until they invent a bigger fool.
Try copying the kernel config from /proc/config, it can't hurt. Makes for a large kernel and lots of compile time, but it should get you working.
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moshiach
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One other thing, just to make sure, you grabbed the right stage3 for your computer, right? All the time-savings in the world on a precompiled system won't help you if you are trying to use a configuration that was optimized for a specific processor.
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