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Hi Nils, thanks for answering |
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On Sep 17, 2005, at 11:40 AM, Nils o. Janus wrote: |
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> Hi Davide, |
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> there have been similar issues before, try searching the history of |
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> the newsgroup for those messages. |
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Yes, I know it, since the old messages have been posted by a |
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colleague of mine, who was on vacation in these two weeks... Tomorrow |
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I'm going to go on with him in installing Gentoo. |
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Actually I left the DS25 on friday bootstrapping the system (stage 1 |
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installation). I chrooted into gentoo starting from an installed |
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RedHat 7.2 |
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Tomorrow I'm going to emerge alpha-sources for compiling and |
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installing the kernel. Let's cross the fingers! |
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> On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 15:15:52 +0200, Davide Cittaro |
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> <daweonline@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> I would like to keep you updated on what's going here, while I'm |
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>> installing gentoo on a DS25... |
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>> Booting from CD-ROM does not work at all. A colleague installed a |
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>> redhat 7.2 on it and I could boot it, then installing gentoo on |
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>> another HD, chrooting in it and all the common stuff in the |
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>> procedure. |
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>> Since I have no network connectivity I downloaded all the files |
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>> needed on a CD-RW. It should be added that, once the installation |
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>> is complete, I could not run 'emerge' because an error in python |
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>> (not able to load libgcc_s.so.1). I had to download python2.3, |
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>> compile it into the redhat system and copy into the chrooted |
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>> gentoo environment. |
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>> I was quite confident that gentoo would boot, but from the SRM |
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>> environment the DS25 freezes while trying to load the gentoo |
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>> kernel... |
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>> Now I'm trying to move the redhat kernel into the /boot partition |
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>> of gentoo but I'm getting errors like: |
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>> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:02 |
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>> or |
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>> Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel |
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>> Actually I got the second error first, I tried to rebuild a initrd |
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>> and then I got the second error... |
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>> I have one more doubt: how the /etc/fstab would figure? I mean, |
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>> looking at the gentoo handbook I see a *traditional* fstab, like |
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>> /dev/sda2 / ext2 etc. |
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>> but the redhat fstab is slightly different, meaning that the first |
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>> entry is not the device but something like |
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>> LABEL=/ / ext2 etc. |
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>> Any hint on this? |
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>> Thanks again |
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>> Davide |
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