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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 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 is |
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complete, I could not run 'emerge' because an error in python (not |
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able to load libgcc_s.so.1). I had to download python2.3, compile it |
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into the redhat system and copy into the chrooted 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 kernel... |
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Now I'm trying to move the redhat kernel into the /boot partition of |
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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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