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Alright, so... |
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I haven't mentioned it up until now because I didn't feel it would have any |
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bearing on the problem, but the installation in question is a VirtualBox |
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guest operating system running on a Windows host. |
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Since I didn't have any particular attachment to the installation, I |
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decided to fdisk and start from scratch. I did this and got the barest |
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most basic Gentoo installation up and running. After I had done this, I |
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realized that I had forgotten to add net.eth0 to default. I did so, |
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rebooted, and sure enough, net.eth0 did not start. |
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I then went and meditated under a tree for a while, because it seemed the |
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world had finally turned its back on me. |
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After this, I said 'what the hell' and tried out a few things. One of the |
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things I tried was to rebuild openrc. For whatever reason, this worked. |
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I'm going to try this on another installation of VirtualBox on another |
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machine and try to reproduce it, but I'm still a little in the dark. This |
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installation was built using the latest minimal install iso, latest stage3 |
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and latest portage snapshot. |
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