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From: Andrea Momesso <momesso.andrea@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Installation problems on AMD64 box
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:55:09
Message-Id: 94f5c8410811280455m331611e5y8aaabb6bdc08fc8c@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Installation problems on AMD64 box by R C Mitchell
1 On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 12:36 PM, R C Mitchell <rcm@×××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
2 >
3 > I use Ubuntu for every day but as my box has a spare 40GB hard disk I decided
4 > to have a go at installing Gentoo on it for evaluation
5 >
6 > Using the handbook documentation for AMD64 I burned a basic installation CD,
7 > booted it up, and followed the instructions for installation on the spare
8 > drive. Everything went fine; I partitioned the disk with a 32MB ext2 sector
9 > for /boot, a 512MB swap sector, 10GB for root and the rest for /home. I had
10 > no trouble with the network, successfully downloaded everything that needed
11 > to be downloaded and unpacked it, successfully chrooted to the new system,
12 > and reached the compiling the kernel section without a glitch.
13 >
14 > And the then the trouble began. I emerged gentoo-sources, and it ran fine for
15 > about five minutes, and then (choosing the moment when I decided all was well
16 > to go and make a pot of tea, the system rebooted itself. I booted up the
17 > disk again and went through the chrooting process. When I went to emerge
18 > gentoo-sources again, emerge looked for the dependencies and then the whole
19 > system froze solid with one of those "this is NOT our fault" kernel panic
20 > messages.
21 >
22 > Not to worry. I can be very patient on occasions. I cold booted the box and
23 > started all over again, deleting the new partitions and going through the
24 > instructions from the beginning incase I'd missed anything. Again I got to
25 > emerging gentoo-sources. Again it ran for about five minutes before the
26 > system rebooted itself. Again I went through the chrooting process and went
27 > to emerge gentoo-sources. Again the system froze. I rebooted and rechrooted
28 > and tried it again. Same result.
29 >
30 > I'm reluctant to believe that this is down to an arbitrary hardware fault,
31 > since everything else works fine. It does seem to have something to do with
32 > emerging gentoo-sources.
33 >
34 > Is anybody able to rescue this maiden in distress and throw some light on my
35 > problem?
36 >
37 > Rosie
38
39 An easy way to find out if this is a gentoo related problem is to
40 avoid using the livecd.
41 You can easily chroot into the gentoo drive from your ubuntu
42 installation and try to emerge
43 gentoo-sources from there.
44
45 If you still get a failure you can be almost sure this is an hardware problem.
46
47 If you don't get any failure, than this does NOT mean gentoo is not
48 for your hardware,
49 but only that the livecd configured kernel may have issues with your hardware.
50
51 Of course be careful compiling your own :P
52
53 --
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Re: [gentoo-user] Installation problems on AMD64 box R C Mitchell <rcm@×××××××××××××.uk>