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I have been trying to install gentoo linux on a miata-class alpha platform 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 download. |
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I used a stage1 tarball stage1-alpha-20040730.tbz2 to perform the installation, |
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and all seemed to go according to the gentoo handbook instructions. I chose 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 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, 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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...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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I give the command (wrapped for readability) |
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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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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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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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<...a sample mount command...> |
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>>>WARNING<<< Wrong ufstype may corrupt your filesystem, default is 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, size 1024) |
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read_super_block: can't find a reiserfs filesystem on (dev 01:00,block 8, size 1024) |
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kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00 |
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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 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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