Gentoo Archives: gentoo-ppc-user

From: Christoph Wegener <c.wegener@××××××××.de>
To: Nathan Sandver <nsandver@×××××.com>
Cc: gentoo-ppc-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] New install, problems
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 21:14:33
Message-Id: ECD070E2-D6A3-11D8-AC05-0050E4305870@itcampus.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-ppc-user] New install, problems by Nathan Sandver
1 Hello Nathan,
2
3 If you want to use linux 2.6 on your Powerbook you should stick with
4 development-sources which are better supported and more recent.
5 Did you remember to compile in support for devfs?
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7 Christoph
8
9 On Jul 15, 2004, at 18:33, Nathan Sandver wrote:
10
11 > Hello,
12 >
13 > I've just installed Gentoo on my 12" PowerBook using the universal
14 > livecd and stage3 tarball. I decided to use the 2.6 kernel
15 > (sys-kernel/ppc-development-sources) and an ext3 root filesystem. The
16 > problem I'm having is that when I try to boot, the filesystem is
17 > mounted read-only (which is normal for every distro I've ever used),
18 > but the rc script tries to write to /dev/null before remounting the
19 > filesystem read-write, which causes an error, and prevents the system
20 > from booting. Should I reconfigure the bootloader not to pass the
21 > read-only option to the kernel, or is there something else I've messed
22 > up?
23 >
24 > Thanks,
25 >
26 > --
27 > Nathan Sandver, KC7SQK
28 >
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30 > gentoo-ppc-user@g.o mailing list
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32 >
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