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On Thursday 13 June 2002 02:15 am, Stephan Wentz wrote: |
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> hi folks! |
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> yesterday is started installing gentoo on my laptop from scratch - |
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> everything 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 |
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> this 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 |
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> checked "Mount on boot", after i unchecked it, the mount_devfs_fs-error |
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> disappeared. maybe you should put this in the red warning-section? |
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That's interesting... I built one yesterday, and checked "Mount on boot" and |
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it worked fine. I was building 2.4.19-gentoo-r7. I wonder what the deal is... |
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it sounds logical to check that item, doesn't it? |
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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 |
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> i forgot something... or do i have to create that file by myself? |
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True. There _used_ to be a pcmcia file there... but I think that was pre-1.0. |
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Perhaps that section should be tagged as only applying to older releases. |
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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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Note the symbolic link in /boot: |
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# cd /boot |
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# ls -l boot |
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lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Dec 30 21:57 boot -> ./ |
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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 |
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> me out? i have my root partition on hda4, and the boot-partition on hda3... |
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> how would grubs menu.lst look like? is the following right, if not, where |
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> is the error? (note: i'm using the nt-bootloader right now, because of that |
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> i installed grub into the boot-partition, not in the mbr...) |
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Yes -- the problem is in your menu.lst. |
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You said the BOOT partition was on /dev/hda3 and the ROOT partition was on |
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/dev/hda4, right? Well, init (and /etc and all those other necessary boot |
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files) is on /dev/hda4. I corrected it in your example below: |
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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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# NOTE: /dev/hda4, not hda3 |
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> kernel /bzImage root=/dev/hda4 |
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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 |
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> mbr? just install it in the mbr? how to remove the version from the |
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> partition? or is this done automatically? |
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AFAIK, when you install grub, it puts its bootloader into the MBR. If you |
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managed to get it to do something else, you know more about grub than I. ;-) |
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> so, enough for now... hope my remarks can help you make gentoo even better |
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> ;-) |
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> stephan |
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Matt |