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Hi all. |
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I know this makes me look like a total moron. Please |
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excuse my ignorance (I'm doing this in the hopes of |
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becoming less ignorant- guess it's not really working) |
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:) |
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I'm using rc6-r14 on a very simple hardware platform |
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(400 Celeron, Winbond, intel, ATI, all stuff that's |
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been supported in linux for 3-4 years now) :) |
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I followed all of the steps in the install guide, and |
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everything worked pretty much as I had hoped. The |
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little glitches that came up I was able to come up |
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with solutions for, and everything acted pretty normal |
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after (the big one was that I didn't have the 'passwd' |
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or 'grub' commands, so I reran emerge system and |
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updated all my stuff). |
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I compiled a new kernel using menuconfig, but didn't |
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see any options that explicitly said 'Device File |
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System'. I did some reading about devfs to see if it |
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was used for anything the kernel I made didn't |
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support. It's used for UNIX PTYs, but I have that in |
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there. I had everything enabled and BUILT IN that I |
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could figure out belonged there. I also compiled the |
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Virtual File System stuff in there. Can anyone tell |
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direct me to the menu entry I missed? I'm using |
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kernel 2.4.16, which I got using the emerge kernel |
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sources command (don't remember it verbatim off the |
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top of my head). |
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My grub install went well and the grub screen came up |
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fine. My menu.lst just has the basic timeout, root= |
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and stuff. After the first boot, I added |
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'gentoo=nodevfs' to it - which I must admit I don't |
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understand - what is the label 'gentoo' a pointer to? |
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Anyway, I think I got everything going really well, |
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but unfortunately I can't boot properly so I'm |
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wondering if there's something I missed, and how this |
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might be fixed. |
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I appreciate any pointers in the right direction. |
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Thanks, |
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njcajun |
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