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Hi All, |
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The first time I did a hard drive boot into Gentoon, I noticed two |
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messages as follows: |
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One said the make sure that the host name in /etc was set to a valid |
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host name. |
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Well, in /etc, I have a file named hosts and when I look at that, it |
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says that the host is localhost with the ip address of 127.0.0.1, which |
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is correct for local host. Should there be another host name in there? |
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Second, I got the message 'cardmgr failed to start. Make sure you have |
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PCMCIA modules built or support compiled into kernel' |
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I thought I had done 'do pcmcia' at somepoint in the process, but maybe |
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I didn't. Can I do this after the fact? If so, exactly what do I have |
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to do? |
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Thanks in advance for the assistance. :-) |
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Regards, |
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Colleen |
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Regards, |
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Colleen |
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>On Monday 25 July 2005 02:31, Alex A. Smith MCP wrote: |
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>>Hi, |
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>>Have you made sure of the filenames of the init ram disk and the kernel? |
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>>Only reason I say this is because the other day when I did a Stage 3 |
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>>Genkernel the files were named something completely different from what is |
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>>in the handbook. (I think initrd was something along the lines of |
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>>initramdisk-<more text> and the both included genkernel in the file name) |
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>>I had myself wondering over that for a while :) |
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>>hth |
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>>Alex A. Smith |
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>>p.s. im installing a gentoo 2.6.12-r6 Stage 3 genkernel atm so I'll let you |
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>>know when its done if the above didn't help ya. |
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>>-----Original Message----- |
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>>From: C.Beamer [mailto:cbeamer@×××××××××.net] |
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>>Sent: 24 July 2005 18:24 |
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>>To: gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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>>Subject: [gentoo-user] Help |
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>>Hi All, |
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>>After getting side-tracked by a power outage in the middle of a Gentoo |
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>>install a couple of weeks ago, I finally got back to doing a Gentoo |
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>>install trial run. |
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>>All seemed to go well. When I rebooted I got the menu with the two |
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>>selections listed (Gentoo and DOS). The computer will boot into DOS |
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>>okay, but I can't get it to boot into Gentoo. Ergo, I think the grub |
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>>install is fine, but I made an error in my grub.conf file. |
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>>Since I'm only moderately savvy about editing configuration files, I |
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>>relied on the examples in the Gentoo Handbook. |
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>>Details are as follows: |
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>>I have a dual boot system: |
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>>hda1 is DOS |
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>>hda2 is /boot |
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>>hda3 is swap |
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>>hda4 is my extended partition |
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>>hda5 is /root |
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>>The grub.conf file that I entered is as follows: |
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>>default 0 |
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>>timeout 30 |
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>>splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz |
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>>title=Genoo Linux 2.6.12-r6 |
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>>root (hda0, 1) |
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>>kernel /kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/ram0 init=linuxrc ramdisk=8192 |
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>>real_root=/dev/hda5 udev |
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>>initrd /initrd-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 |
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>>title=DOS |
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>>root (hda0,0) |
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>>makeactive |
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>>chainloader +1 |
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>>I put the initrd line in the grub.conf file even though when I ran the |
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>>command |
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>>'ls /boot/kernel* /boot/initrd*' |
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>>as instructed in the Handbook, I got told that there was no initrdfile. |
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>>Have I missed something or done something wrong? |
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>>Is there a way to fix the grub.conf file? |
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>>I tried selecting the Gentoo line from the menu and pressing 'e' to |
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>>edit, but no matter what changes I made, I still get an error message |
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>>when I try to boot into Gentoo that says: |
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>>Error 15: File not found |
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>>This displays immediatedly after the line |
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>>kernel /kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/ram0 init=linuxrc ramdisk=8192 |
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>>real_root=/dev/hda5 udev |
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>>Any assistance would be appreciated. And please remember, I am not |
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>>stupid, but I'm not a computer science grad. I've been running Linux at |
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>>home for about 3 years and dabbling with it for a couple of years before |
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>>that, but I've always used Redhat or Fedora. However, I'm finding that |
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>>with each release of Fedora, more "quirks" appear. Things that I was |
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>>able to do with no problem in a previous release, I now can't do without |
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>>"letting some blood". Hence, I wanted to try Gentoo because I can |
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>>install the software from source using emerge. This will be a learning |
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>>curve for me, but I can conquer it - I have come a long way since a |
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>>friend first mentioned Linux to me and I asked what it was! |
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>>Anyway, the point of the previous paragraph is to ask that complete |
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>>details be stated for any help that is provided. And if you tell me |
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>>that I "screwed up royally" and have to start all over, that's okay. |
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>>That's what this exercise was for - to learn what I needed to know |
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>>before installing Gentoo on a "production" system. |
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>>BTW, I did a "Stage 3" install. Since it was my first time and I don't |
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>>know anything about optimizations, I didn't want to get in over my |
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>>head. :-) |
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>>Thanks in advance for any assistance. |
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>>Respectfully, |
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>>Colleen |
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