[gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video)

[Felix Miata]

Yesterday I attempted my first Gentoo install (11.0). Thanks to help here, I 
got through my mirrorselect problem. First boot failed. I managed to miss 
enabling VIA ATA support, so had no access to /. Second kernel build 
suceeded, even to basic network working. First activity on first boot was 
'emerge mc'. That took too long to measure, pulling in 146 packages total, 
and I had to goto an appointment before it finished (at package 109).

Along the way to successful boot, I attempted two emerges suggested by the 
handbook (one being Grub Legacy). Both produced "ERROR: ... (compile 
phase)..." errors. Today I attempted NFS mounting only to find messages 
indicating I had neither portmap nor rpcbind running, so tried 'emerge 
portmap'. This produced similar (compile phase)... line 2140: Called die..." 
error. So did 'emerge rpcbind'. The way I normally provide logs when asking 
for help is put them on my file/web server via NFS, hence the chicken & egg 
subject line.

Another problem, highly annoying, is both vga= and video= cmdline parameters 
are apparently being ignored. KMS seems married to the Trinitron's 
PreferredMode (1600x1200), which produces mousetype on the ttys, and needs to 
be fixed before I'll be able to accomplish much without pain trying to see 
what I'm doing. My tty PreferredMode is 1152x864, which works with openSUSE 
KMS kernels by setting video=1152x864 on cmdline.

Any suggestions? Are such things in a FAQ somewhere? Do I need an older or 
newer portage than Wednesday's? The Handbook stops at Finalizing, where these 
questions aren't covered.
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