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On 16/09/10 09:04, Al wrote: |
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>> As I'm in an office, there is no concrete nearby for anything to be in. |
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> Lol. Well, there are some other meanings in the latin word concretus. |
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> The didn't even have that bleak modern material. We have a different |
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> name for it in german and use concretus more in the original sense. |
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>> If you're asking what, specifically, I mean by "it starts", my previous |
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>> posts show how far into the boot process it gets. If I specify by |
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>> /dev/sda1, eventually it gets to checking that partition for errors, but |
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>> fails to find the partition. If I specify by LABEL, then it tells me it |
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> I am still asking myself, if it is the USB stick at all that you see |
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> starting. Couldn't it be a kernel from the inbuild hard disk? ... wich |
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> you would *hear* in that case ... maybe even smell or feel ... |
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> Hence I ask you if there linux kernel on the first or second partition |
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> of your disk. |
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> Al |
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Ah, I see. For this test, I have a second PC that I've unplugged the |
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hard drive from. And it's hard drive currently has a work Windows image |
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on it, anyway, so it's definitely not booting from that. :-) |
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I also have finished my new kernel. It now recognizes the root device |
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by label, but still hangs on the fsck. Any more bright ideas? Surely |
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someone has done this already; I can't be the first to try it. Hasn't |
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someone else put a Gentoo install on a USB stick? |
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If I'm correct in my assumptions, it sounds as though GRUB and the |
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kernel are seeing it right, but something in the Gentoo init scripts is |
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breaking it. Can anyone even comment if that assumption is correct? |
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I'm not entirely clear on genkernel and the initramfs it provides, and |
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at what step each of these takes effect. |
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Jake Moe |
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