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Hello folks. I have an Asus EeePC 701 (4GB) and I'm having problems |
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installing Gentoo on it, so I wrote this giant e-mail to help you |
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understand what is going on and what I have done and can't do. |
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I have been using Gentoo for a while, so I am pretty comfortable on |
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installing it and configuring it. |
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"Disks" on my Eee: |
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Internal Flash (4GB): /dev/sda1 -> Ubuntu 8.04 (blergh, not for long) :-) |
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SD Card (8GB): /dev/sdb1 -> Gentoo 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 |
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The Gentoo system is ready. I mean, it is still text-mode only, but I |
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have some ideas about the other stuff to be installed, continue reading, |
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please. :-) |
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The problem is that I just can't boot the system. At first, I thought I |
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had forgotten something when configuring the kernel. But I gave up that |
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idea since me and a friend of mine re-checked it many times. |
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I have installed Gentoo's grub on the MBR of /dev/sda, since I intend to |
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remove Ubuntu later. The kernel hangs because it can't find /dev/sdb1 |
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[1]. The system I consider a minimum usable text-mode system is already |
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installed, configured and even up-to-date. |
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I have tried a lot of different things. I tried booting Gentoo using the |
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Ubuntu kernel. Sound reasonable, but Ubuntu's initrd (which later I |
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realized is the one that recognizes my "disks") already mount /proc and |
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when Gentoo's RC comes up it "oops" because of /proc [2]. Since booting |
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Ubuntu's kernel is just temporary, I won't edit the init.d script that |
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mounts /proc on Gentoo. Anyway. |
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By-the-way, something that is worth mentioning. When booting Ubuntu's |
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kernel, it sometimes (not always) hangs at this point [3]. It stays |
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there for four to five MINUTES, sometimes. But some other times is just |
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goes straight. Even when "hanging" there for a while, it always passed |
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that and boots the system. Also happens when trying to boot Gentoo with |
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Ubuntu's kernel. |
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I have done tons of online research, but what I found is people that |
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successfully installed Gentoo on the EeePC. |
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I've read and bookmarked these links [4] [5] "just in case", but so far |
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they didn't help me at all. |
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[1]: http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br/~saffi/eee/Gentoo-Kernel_Gentoo.jpg |
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[2]: http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br/~saffi/eee/Gentoo-Kernel_Ubuntu.jpg |
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[3]: http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br/~saffi/eee/Gentoo-Kernel_Ubuntu2.jpg |
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[4]: http://www.gentoo-wiki.com/Asus_Eee_PC_701 |
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[5]: |
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http://www.floccinaucinihilipilification.net/wiki/index.php/Gentoo_on_the_EEE_Pc |
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I have ideas about installing the graphical system and other stuff |
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later. I intend to share the ideas and will as soon as my basic system |
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boots. Anyway, thanks in advance for any help! |
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Best regards, |
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Saffi |
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Ricardo Saffi Marques |
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http://www.rsaffi.com |
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Laboratory of System Administration and Security - LAS |
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Institute of Computing - IC |
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P.O. Box: 6176 |
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University of Campinas - UNICAMP |
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13083-852, Campinas, SP, Brazil |
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