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On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Harry Putnam<reader@×××××××.com> wrote: |
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> I've just completed first part of a fresh install. |
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> Mounted the new root and emerged a few things while still chrooted. |
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> It'd be difficult to list quickly since I can't boot it, but the |
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> highlights are: |
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> eix |
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> genkernel |
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> gentoolkit |
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> gentoolkit-dev |
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> gentoo-sources |
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> grub |
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> lynx |
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> ntp |
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> reiserfsprogs |
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> rsyslog |
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> vim |
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> vixie-cron |
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> |
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> And a number of dependancies pulled in from my use flags. |
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> I didn't want to start from scratch dinking around with kernel params |
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> so elected to go the `genkernel all' route, hoping that with that much |
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> junk being compiled... surely I'd get whatever I needed to start the |
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> process of building up this installation. |
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> I realize there are many who have lots of rants against genkernel but |
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> unless you think that is the core of the problem... please hold off on |
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> advice to build my own kenel. |
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> kernel = 2.6.29-r5 |
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> What I see on reboot: |
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> Normal booting appears to be going along then moments after dev is |
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> mounted followed by filesystems... a massive screen full of text |
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> begins scrolling by and never stops. |
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> Impossible to read any of the text and neither pause/break or |
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> scroll/lock keys have any effect. |
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> Appears to be a continuous wrapping line repeated. |
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> But it completely kills the boot process, and no further progress is |
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> possible. |
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> I really have no idea what to change when I boot off the install media. |
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You emerged reiserfsprogs before the machine was up and running. Does |
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this somehow imply that you are trying to boot from a Reiser partition |
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and could that be part of the problem? |
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Does the machine have a serial port and do you have access to a second |
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machine that you could capture and save the early boot messages? That |
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might be helpful. I know many machine now don't support that. There |
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may be ways to do something similar over the network or USB if the |
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boot gets that far. |
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- Mark |