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On Mar 4, 2012 12:54 AM, "Grant" <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >>> I just received the new Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook and I'm trying to |
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> >>> install Gentoo but I can't get install-amd64-minimal-20120223.iso to |
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> >>> boot via a USB key. |
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> >> Have you tested your boot USB keys on another machine? |
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> > Gentoo is installed but I can't get my USB->ethernet adapter to bring |
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> > up an eth0 (or any other) interface. It works if I boot the Kubuntu |
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> > USB key. I've definitely built the correct driver into the kernel |
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> > (mcs7380). I'm going through an emerge world right now to bring |
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> > everything up to date. Is there anything else I might need to do? |
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> > - Grant |
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> I enabled some more kernel options under USB Network Adapters and it's |
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> working now. The install is about done but there were a few |
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> peculiarities: |
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> 1. fdisk won't let me specify a start block before 2048 even though I |
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> deleted all partitions. |
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That's normal. It's a long story, but Windows Vista and Windows 7 expects |
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the first partition to start at sector 2048. |
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You can force a lower number by toggling "DOS compatibility"; this should |
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let you start the first partition as low as sector 63. |
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HOWEVER, make sure that all partitions begin at multiples of 8 (e.g., 64, |
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72, 80, and so on); this will save you a lot of grief if it happens that |
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the hard disk you're using has 4KiB-sectors. [1] |
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> 2. grub-install reported something like: |
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> fd0 |
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> hd0 |
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> hd1 |
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> where hd1 was the USB key. Should I fix this to remove the USB key from |
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grub? |
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I see no problem. The lower number is still the internal hard disk, so grub |
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shouldn't have any trouble booting. |
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> 3. Portage complains about duplicate repositories. I think it has to |
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> do with the fact that I ran emerge --sync without downloading and |
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> extracting an initial snapshot. |
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Try 'rm -rf /usr/portage', download (or copy) portage-latest tarball, and |
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extract it into a re-created /usr/portage |
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> Please let me know if you have any idea on these. |
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> - Grant |
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Rgds, |
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