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Hi folks, |
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New installation - Gentoo amd64 |
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Guide:- Gentoo Linux AMD64 Handbook |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml |
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Kernel - linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r7 |
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# fdisk -l |
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/dev/hda1 * 83 System (for /boot) |
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/dev/hda2 83 Linux (for /) |
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/dev/hda3 82 swap |
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/dev/hda4 8e Linux LVM (for /usr /home /var /opt /tmp) |
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/vg/usr |
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/vg/home |
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/vg/var |
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/vg/opt |
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/vg/tmp |
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Installation went through quite smoothly except following problems |
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found:- |
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1) |
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# USE="-doc symlink" emerge gentoo-sources |
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* GNU info directory index is up-to-date. |
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* IMPORTANT: 7 config files in /etc need updating. |
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* Type emerge --help config to learn how to update config files. |
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* end * |
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# find /etc -iname '._cfg????_*' |
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No printout. Can't find the config files to be updated. |
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2) |
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# grep -v rootfs /proc/mounts > /etc/mtab |
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cursor hanging there |
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# grub install /dev/hda |
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df: Warning: cannot read table of mounted filesystems |
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df: Warning: cannot read table of mounted filesystems |
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Could not find device for /boot: Not found or not a block device. |
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* end * |
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3) |
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/boot/grub/grub.conf |
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default 0 |
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timeout 30 |
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title=Gentoo linux 2.6.17.-r7 |
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root (hd0,0) |
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kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r7 root=/dev/hda2 |
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* end * |
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Should I put (hd0,1) for my case? I followed the sample in the guide |
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book. |
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4) |
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# cat /etc/fstab |
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# <fs> <mountpoint> <type> <opts> <dump/pass> |
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# NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to |
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opts. |
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/dev/BOOT /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2 |
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/dev/ROOT / ext3 noatime 0 1 |
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/dev/SWAP none swap sw 0 0 |
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/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0 |
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#/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto 0 0 |
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# NOTE: The next line is critical for boot! |
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proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 |
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shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 |
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On reboot only a black screen displayed. Please advise how to fix the |
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problem. TIA |
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B.R. |
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SL |
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