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On 17/06/10 20:38, Roger Mason wrote: |
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> Jake, |
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> Jake Moe <jakesaddress@×××××.com> writes: |
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>> I've just completed a fresh Gentoo installation on a new laptop, and |
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>> strangely, after I choose the entry from the Grub screen, all I get is: |
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>> Booting `Gentoo Linux 2.6.32-r7` |
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>> root (hd0,1) |
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>> Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 |
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>> kernel /kernel-2.6.32-gentoo-r7 root=/dev/sda4 |
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>> [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x3000, size=0x1ab020] |
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>> It then sits there. No error, no other messages. The hard drive light |
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>> stops, and the Num Lock and Caps Lock keys don't respond. If I press |
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>> the power button, it immediately turns off. |
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>> The laptop is a HP 8440p and I've installed amd64. I've followed the |
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>> install guide, and the hard drive has Windows, EXT2 /boot, swap, EXT3 / |
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>> on it. I've compiled EXT2, EXT3 and SATA AHCI into the kernel. |
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>> Does anyone have any idea what I've forgotten or missed? If you need |
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>> more info, let me know. Thanks for any help you can give. |
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> I had a similar problem about 6 weeks or so ago. It turned out that the |
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> hardware (a Dell Optiplex 320) and Grub were incompatible in some way. |
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> I installed Lilo instead, and everything now works fine. So, try |
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> searching on your specific hardware to see if this is a known problem. |
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> Roger |
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I had tried to see if there was anything special about the hardware, but |
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couldn't find anything. I'm still of the opinion that it's something to |
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do with the kernel, but I've given up on amd64 (I'm not sure if I've had |
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an amd64 Gentoo PC before) and switched back to x86, and other than |
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forgetting SCSI disk support in the kernel for my SATA disk (which I |
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*always* do, why can't they make SCSI disk support a requirement for |
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SATA AHCI support?), the install went smoothly. The only other thing of |
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note is that I seem to need to use the unstable ndivia-drivers |
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(195.36.24), as the latest stable one (190.42-r3) produced flickering |
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garbage on my screen when I went into X. |
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Thanks for trying to those that did. |
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Jake Moe |
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