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From: Davide Cittaro <daweonline@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-alpha@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alpha] gentoo on a DS25
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 18:36:02
Message-Id: B8AB846D-D45A-49B5-8F4B-03696132FC26@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alpha] gentoo on a DS25 by "Nils o. Janus"
1 Hi Nils, thanks for answering
2
3 On Sep 17, 2005, at 11:40 AM, Nils o. Janus wrote:
4
5 > Hi Davide,
6 >
7 > there have been similar issues before, try searching the history of
8 > the newsgroup for those messages.
9
10 Yes, I know it, since the old messages have been posted by a
11 colleague of mine, who was on vacation in these two weeks... Tomorrow
12 I'm going to go on with him in installing Gentoo.
13 Actually I left the DS25 on friday bootstrapping the system (stage 1
14 installation). I chrooted into gentoo starting from an installed
15 RedHat 7.2
16 Tomorrow I'm going to emerge alpha-sources for compiling and
17 installing the kernel. Let's cross the fingers!
18
19 >
20 > On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 15:15:52 +0200, Davide Cittaro
21 > <daweonline@×××××.com> wrote:
22 >
23 >
24 >> I would like to keep you updated on what's going here, while I'm
25 >> installing gentoo on a DS25...
26 >> Booting from CD-ROM does not work at all. A colleague installed a
27 >> redhat 7.2 on it and I could boot it, then installing gentoo on
28 >> another HD, chrooting in it and all the common stuff in the
29 >> procedure.
30 >> Since I have no network connectivity I downloaded all the files
31 >> needed on a CD-RW. It should be added that, once the installation
32 >> is complete, I could not run 'emerge' because an error in python
33 >> (not able to load libgcc_s.so.1). I had to download python2.3,
34 >> compile it into the redhat system and copy into the chrooted
35 >> gentoo environment.
36 >> I was quite confident that gentoo would boot, but from the SRM
37 >> environment the DS25 freezes while trying to load the gentoo
38 >> kernel...
39 >> Now I'm trying to move the redhat kernel into the /boot partition
40 >> of gentoo but I'm getting errors like:
41 >> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:02
42 >>
43 >> or
44 >>
45 >> Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel
46 >>
47 >> Actually I got the second error first, I tried to rebuild a initrd
48 >> and then I got the second error...
49 >>
50 >> I have one more doubt: how the /etc/fstab would figure? I mean,
51 >> looking at the gentoo handbook I see a *traditional* fstab, like
52 >>
53 >> /dev/sda2 / ext2 etc.
54 >>
55 >> but the redhat fstab is slightly different, meaning that the first
56 >> entry is not the device but something like
57 >>
58 >> LABEL=/ / ext2 etc.
59 >>
60 >> Any hint on this?
61 >>
62 >> Thanks again
63 >>
64 >> Davide
65 >>
66 >
67 >
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70 >
71 >
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Re: [gentoo-alpha] gentoo on a DS25 Jeff Donsbach <jeff_donsbach@×××××.com>