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From: Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:55:17
Message-Id: uiqj426ud.fsf@newsguy.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text by Roy Wright
1 Roy Wright <roy@××××××.org> writes:
2
3 [...]
4
5 >> I really have no idea what to change when I boot off the install
6 >> media.
7 >
8 > So you have grub installed, the grub menu appears, you select a boot
9 > option, boot starts, the usual kernel messages flash by, you get to the
10 > second part of the boot where the lines look like:
11 >
12 > blah... [OK]
13 >
14 > Then something goes crazy.
15
16 Yes, just the first few `blah [ok]' lines... maybe 3.
17
18 > Assuming that's the scenario, boot with your install media, enter the
19 > chroot, then take a peek at the logs in /var/log. Hopefully you can
20 > find
21 > a hint.
22 >
23
24 In progress on you suggestion now.
25 But no syslog is running in the chroot.(is it?) But still looking
26 around.
27
28 And just incase its something related to the newest kernel I've
29 downgraded to 2.6.29-r2 and building from an old .config of 2.6.28.
30 (not genkernel on this one)

Replies

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text Mike Kazantsev <mk.fraggod@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>