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What are the contents of the /etc/fstab-file? Looks like the boot is looking for |
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a reiserfs-partition. Have you set the correct filesystems there? |
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/Fluff |
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Citerar Bill.Glessner@×××.EDU: |
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> I have been trying to install gentoo linux on a miata-class alpha platform |
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> and, |
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> after following the instructions in the gentoo linux handbook, I still can't |
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> seem to achieve a working system. |
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> I am using a livecd burned from the gentoo-alpha-2004_2-20040730.iso |
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> download. |
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> I used a stage1 tarball stage1-alpha-20040730.tbz2 to perform the |
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> installation, |
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> and all seemed to go according to the gentoo handbook instructions. I chose |
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> the |
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> genkernel option, and its creation/build also seemed to match the gentoo |
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> handbook material. |
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> The kernel version is kernel-2.4.21-alpha-r12. The step where the system disk |
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> is made bootable and a bootloader is configured is where I seem to be |
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> failing. |
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> I chose to configure/use the aboot bootloader; however, I can't seem to find |
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> any directions, other than some minimal general material in the aboot, |
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> abootconf |
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> and aboot.conf man pages, which describe how to set up abbot and boot the |
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> kernel built during the installation. |
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> Am I using the most recent, stable gentoo linux installation distribution for |
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> the alpha platform? |
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> Has anyone successfully built a genkernel from the above distribution and |
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> booted it? If so, how did you set up the aboot environment? |
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> The specific problem I am having is: |
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> boot dkc0 -fl "i" |
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> |
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> ...stuff leading to the aboot scondary bootloader menu... |
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> jumping to bootstrap code |
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> aboot: Linux/Alpha SRM bootloader version 0.9bpre |
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> aboot: switching to OSF/1 PALcode version 1.22 |
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> aboot: booting from device 'SCSI 0 1009 0 0 0 0 0' |
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> aboot: valid disklabel found: 3 partitions. |
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> Welcome to aboot 0.9bpre |
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> Commands: |
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> (the menu) |
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> |
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> I give the command (wrapped for readability) |
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> |
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> b /boot/kernel-2.4.21-alpha-r12 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.21-alpha-r12 |
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> root=/dev/ram0 real_root=/dev/sda2 init=/linuxrc |
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> |
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> the boot begins with loading the kernel after a number of device/driver |
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> configurations but hangs at the point |
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> |
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> IP protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP |
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> IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets, 8Kbytes |
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> TCP: Hash table configured (established 16384 bind 16384) |
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> NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. |
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> FAT: bogus logical sector size 0 |
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> You didn't specify the type of your ufs filesystem |
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> |
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> <...a sample mount command...> |
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> |
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> >>>WARNING<<< Wrong ufstype may corrupt your filesystem, default is |
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> ufstype=old |
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> ufs_read_super: bad magic number |
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> read_super_block: can't find a reiserfs filesystem on (dev 01:00,block 64, |
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> size 1024) |
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> read_super_block: can't find a reiserfs filesystem on (dev 01:00,block 8, |
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> size 1024) |
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> kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00 |
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> |
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> The dkc0 disk label has 3 partitions: |
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> a: the swap partition (starting at cylinder 3) |
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> b: the root partition with filesystem type ext2 |
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> c: the whole disk partition |
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> I have probably missed/misundertood an installation step or haven't guessed |
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> the |
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> correct aboot command so, if someone could provide an example of a working |
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> aboot environment for a working alpha gentoo linux installation, I would |
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> appreciate it. |
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> Thanks for your help |
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> Bill Glessner - System programmer |
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> Central Washington University |
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