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hi folks! |
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yesterday is started installing gentoo on my laptop from scratch - everything |
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worked fine, and the documentation is EXCELLENT! great job ;-) |
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he found all modules, all pcmcia-network-cards (normal ethernet and a |
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wlan-card). |
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but i found 2 things that didn't work out with my installation: |
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1) 14.Final steps: kernel and system logger |
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after i succeded with the installation and booted the first time, i got this |
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error-msg: |
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"mount_devfs_fs(): unable to mount devfs, err: -2 |
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looked through the forums and found the solution: |
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in the kernel-config i checked "/dev filesystem support", but i ALSO checked |
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"Mount on boot", after i unchecked it, the mount_devfs_fs-error disappeared. |
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maybe you should put this in the red warning-section? |
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2) Final network configuration |
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where it says |
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"If you have a PCMCIA card installed, have a quick look into |
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/etc/init.d/pcmcia to verify that things seem all right for your setup" |
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the problem is: there is no file /etc/init.d/pcmcia! |
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did i miss something? i followed the instructions step-by-step, don't think i |
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forgot something... or do i have to create that file by myself? |
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3) Final steps: configure GRUB |
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in code listing 40 the line splashimage points to |
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(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz |
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and above you state that in your example hda1 is the boot-partition. |
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shouldn't it mean (hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz then? without /boot ? |
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and what about the kernel-line? there's the same thing... or does it mount |
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/dev/hda3 (like state with the root-parameter in the kernel-line) as the |
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root-device? then it would be ok... |
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now, while booting i get this error: |
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"Warning: unable to open an initial console. |
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Kernel panic: No init found. Tyr passing init= option in kernel." |
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i think this is because of a wrong grub-configuration... maybe you can help me |
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out? i have my root partition on hda4, and the boot-partition on hda3... how |
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would grubs menu.lst look like? is the following right, if not, where is the |
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error? (note: i'm using the nt-bootloader right now, because of that i |
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installed grub into the boot-partition, not in the mbr...) |
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default 0 |
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timeout 30 |
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splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz |
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title=My example Gentoo Linux |
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root (hd0,2) |
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kernel /bzImage root=/dev/hda3 |
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maybe you can help me out... i'm very interested in gentoo - so i'd like to |
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start it ;-) |
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another question according to grub: like i said, i installed it into my |
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boot-partiton, what if i want to remove it from there and put it in the mbr? |
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just install it in the mbr? how to remove the version from the partition? or |
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is this done automatically? |
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so, enough for now... hope my remarks can help you make gentoo even better ;-) |
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stephan |