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On Sun, 2002-01-13 at 19:09, Brian Jones wrote: |
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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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> |
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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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> |
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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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> |
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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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> |
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You have to enable experimental code, then it will be under |
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filesystems. |
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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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> |
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It is a Gentoo Linux option that gets passed to the init |
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stuff. |
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The thing is, Gentoo Linux is designed to work best with |
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devfs, thus you should really consider using it. Now, |
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Gentoo should boot without DEVFS, but only display a annoying |
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message. To get rid of this, pass "gentoo=nodevfs" as kernel |
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parameter. |
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If it is not booting without DEVFS (ie you get |
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a message about not being able to mount root), let us know, |
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as the regular devices in /dev may not be created during |
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bootstrap. |
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> |
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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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> |
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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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> |
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Martin Schlemmer |
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Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Developer |
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Cape Town, South Africa |
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