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On Saturday 17 January 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> But, now that you mention it, something in /dev was wrong |
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> because the first time I booted Gentoo off hda2, the "issue" |
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> message that's displayed before the login prompt gave |
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> instructions on how to fix /dev. I never figured out what |
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> exactly was wrong, but following the instructions fixed it. |
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> It took me a while to get to that point since I tripped over |
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> the grub bug that displays a blank menu and then corrupts the |
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> console. Apparently there's something wrong with the |
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> splash.xpm.gz file, and you have to comment out the splashcreen |
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> line in menu.lst. |
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The path of the splash.xpm.gz has to be correct or you'll get problems booting |
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up. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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