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I got new hardware for a home desktop a few days ago. |
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Downloaded install-amd64-minimal-20130801.iso and am still booting |
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from that cd as hard drive boot fails. |
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I turned on logging in /etc/rc.conf, but no /var/log/rc.log is produced. |
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The disks are mounted but readonly. I guess from this the problem is |
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occurring before the root partition is mounted. |
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I only have 4 partitions: boot, swap, root, and home. Since everything |
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important is on the root partition, I'm not using an initramfs. |
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I have many times tried to catch the error by watching the screen, but it |
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scrolls past way to fast. |
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The last part of the boot messages before things go crazy is |
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"Switching to clocksource TSC". |
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I've been reading up on grub, but don't see anyway to get more info on what |
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is going wrong. |
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If I boot from the cd and chroot to the disk, everything seems to work |
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fine. /boot is ext2 fs and this is my grug.conf: |
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default 0 |
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timeout 20 |
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splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz |
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title Gentoo Linux 3.8.13 |
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root (hd0,0) |
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kernel /boot/3.8/13-0/bzImage root=/dev/sda3 |