Re: [gentoo-dev] this is my first...

[Ben Lutgens]

On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 11:16:08AM -0500, evodius wrote:
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>   hello, i'm an enthusiast and was all of a sudden having Problems! yes
>   this letter is for some help if your willing. it would be much
>   appreciated! i was searching your site for some kind of help guide and
>   i didn't find one.
>
>   So, heres the symptoms: when the grub loads the designated os's are
>   present gentoo and windoze 2k. i choose the linux prompt and and the
>   system reboots!! my roomate helped me and he's the real genius here.
>   we could not get it werkin and was wondering if you could help. i
>   desperatly want to learn linux and would like to be done with windoze.
>   Please, will you help me?

I had this happen when I compiled an kernel for an athlon while sshed in to
a pentium machine (whoops) I was absolutely perplexed then I said "Doh! I
compiled for athlon but that box is a PII266!!" 

Also it might be that your kernel image is b0rken some other way (but that
is not likely to cause a reboot) it should just say something to the effect
of "This is not a valid kernel"

Try booting the rescue/install cd, mount the filesystems, chroot, recompile
your kernel and take care that the config is correct, and try it again.

HTH
>   Sincerly mel

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Ben Lutgens					Gentoo Developer

"I got a wife an kids too but you don't see me out here stealing imperial
droids do you?"