Re: [gentoo-dev] Installing 1.0-rc6-r9 on Vaio Laptop

[Daniel Robbins]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:44:12AM +0200, Christian Hergl wrote:

> 1. Problem: Got a pcmcia network card and a pcmcia cdrom. The cd image boots
> fine, but... can't mount the cdrom (isn't recognized by the kernel after it
> takes control, though the ramdisk loads fine). So I wanted to go over a fat
> or ntfs partition. Suprise: the gentoo kernel can't mount any other
> filesystem.  Now, after long thinking and a different solution (lotsa
> different bootdisks), I found a file called /etc/filesystems. Does it help if
> I put the fat and ntfs line in there?

OK: PCMCIA support currently isn't tested or fully enabled.  Also, we *do* have
support for every filesystem on the boot CD; however, you need to "insmod" the
modules with -r9 and earlier.  Things should be much easier with -r10, which
includes modprobe.

> 3. Install and compile worked well enough (perl was a bit bouncy with
> some timeout in iolibs?) and I got the system up and running. But...
> pcmcia again. This packet (in pcmcia-cs of portage) also complains about
> the missing X (been on the list before, same bug here). So, erasing X
> from the USE-Variable. Compiles till to the 3c575/tulip, then stops
> there with an error 2 =P Same error one all three version of the
> pcmcia-cs package (28, 28-r1 and 29). Suprisingly enough, if I install
> the package manually (from the tar.gz sources), it worked and compiled
> fine! Some ebuild problem?

pcmcia-cs seems to choke when you use certain configuration options.  What
config options did you use?  We made our options more correct, and all of
the sudden the builds started dying.

> 4. So, about starting the pcmcia.... I'm totally confused by the new startup
> scripts. I mean, I'm used to the rc runlevels and stuff. The problem now that
> I have (AFTER manually installing the pcmcia startup script according to the
> ebuild AND manually altering the PCIC in it to yenta_socket, as the i8xxx
> doesn'T work on my laptop (and 2.4.x in general?)): the pcmcia startup script
> gets called AFTER the network driver is supposed to be loaded by modules. Is
> there ANY way to change the timing/row of the startup scripts?  Currently I
> manually load the pcmcia modules before the network module in 'modules'. I
> doubt that is wanted....

A Gentoo Linux version of the pcmcia startup script (with dependencies) is
currently in development.

> 5. I get every time now I boot a log replay of my reiserfs happens.
> Also, mount/umount and du don'T work, probably due to the new devfs?
> Could someone clue me in pleeze how to get my reiserfs consistent every
> time I (re)boot? I have a baaaad feeling about it, like it doesn't get
> unmounted properly...

What do you mean by "mount/umount and du don't work"?

> 6. Yah, and with the yesterday's version of the portage tree I can't
> compile Xfree. Period, any version. Is that knowen yet? If not, tell me
> and I look up the exact lines where it bounces out (short after the
> depencies calculation, I guess)

Yes, please post the error dump.

> Else this is the newest linux I've seen so far and think it'S nifty. =)
> Bad luck that r10 came out today. Is it just the hdparm adjustement, and
> can that be fixed into a r9 too? (reinstalling and recompiling would
> take again almost at least 1 day =P)

Just things to make installation easier.

> Thanks for the toy to play with,
> Christian

You're welcome.

> PS: Build from Sources docu: code listing 25. Shouldn'T it be
> net.eth0-dhcp somewhere in there? =) It looks very much the same like
> code listing 24 ;)

OK; fixed.  Also, we now use rc-update to install the scripts.  Fixed.

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@g.o>
Chief Architect/President			http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.