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On Tuesday 01 October 2002 23:11, Wilson Brown wrote: |
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> The problems begin when I reboot. |
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> The first problem I encounter is grub. |
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> Apparently grub cannot find menu.lst (maybe I misread your instruction on |
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> where to create it, but I don't think so) Anyway, I followed your link to |
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> the grub tutorial which said that it included emergency procedures (which I |
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> didn't find) and found mostly instructions for installing grub on an |
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> existing system (which I don't need), however I did find examples for |
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> manually booting to /boot/Image.bz2, and I booted line. |
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The manual booting is the emergency procedure. |
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What is important though is that you tell grub where it needs to find the |
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menu.lst file. |
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Remember that grub uses a boot partition in the gentoo setup. Look at the |
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grub manual: man grub |
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> After booting into line, none of the Code listings in "18.Gent-Stats" |
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> work. Apparently I can no longer get online to do an emerge or anything. |
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> In the Nic listing that I have been able to find, I haven't found any cards |
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> that resemble any of the cards that I have. My current choices are and |
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> ADMTek AN983B which is integrated on the motherboard (MSI MS-6378X-L) and |
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> an OvisLink 8139ATXC. Either of them work fine on the CD boot. |
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> Under Code listing 28 under "14.Final steps: kernel and system logger, |
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> specifically "make menuconfig"; I am trying to follow your detailed |
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> instructions with great specificity (I'm trying to be very careful), but |
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> perhaps I am missing something or doing something wrong. |
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> I don't understand why I can get online just fine while booting from the |
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> CD, but I can't get online when booting from the HD. If I can use your |
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> default net drivers to get my dhcp up and running from a CD boot, why can't |
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> I use those same drivers to get dhcp and the net up and running from an HD |
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> boot?....or can I? If so, how do I do it? |
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Apparently you didn't include the right drivers for your network card. What |
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you could do is boot from the cd, and then run: |
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dmesg |less |
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It should tell you somewhere that it recognised one/two network cards and that |
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it is loading the drivers. That will tell you which drivers it are. If you |
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loaded the drivers as modules, you just need to remember which modules it |
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are. You can use lsmod to get a list of all currently loaded modules. Most |
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linux drivers work with the particular chipset on the cards, not with the |
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model number assigned by hardware vendors. You can also do a cat /proc/pci to |
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get a list of all pci devices in your computer. |
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> I can't move or fix the menu.lst problem because I can't find it. I guess |
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> it is on the /mnt/gentoo/boot directory that has been umounted. Can I |
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> remount this directory to change something in it. If so, how do I do that? |
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mount /boot (as root, and not running from the cd) |
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Good luck, |
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ps. If you still cannot find the driver for your devices, include the output |
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of cat /proc/pci in the mail. |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Junior Researcher |
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Mail: pauldv@××××××.nl |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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