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On 2015-08-17 17:20, Martin Vaeth wrote: |
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> jfmxl <jfmxl@×××.ORG> wrote: |
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>> I wrote a coupla days ago, using the guest interface at the website |
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>> ... |
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> I do not know what you mean by "guest interface". |
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> One right place for your support question would be the |
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> gentoo forum "Installing Gentoo": |
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> https://forums.gentoo.org/viewforum-f-14.html |
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Thanks for the speedy reply. I got to the 'wrong' place by clicking the |
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link to under 'Where to go from here' |
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at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Finalizing |
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after the machine failed to boot. That led me to |
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https://www.gentoo.org/get-involved/mailing-lists/, where the big, |
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purple, and welcome 'Post to Gentoo User' |
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button caught my eye. It looked inviting, and so I used it. |
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>> but the kernel failed to mount root. |
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> This can have many reasons. More informations are needed. |
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> According to this: |
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>> looked at /etc/fstab, but found a /dev/ram0 and a |
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>> /proc and nothing like what I'd entered ... |
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> you are probably using an initrd which you must have built and entered |
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> into grub (or grub2?) somewhere. Are you perhaps using genkernel to |
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> build |
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> such an initrd? |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Kernel#Optional:_Building_an_initramfs |
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To install an initramfs, install sys-kernel/genkernel first, then |
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have it generate an initramfs: |
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root #emerge genkernel |
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root #genkernel --install initramfs |
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So yes, that's what I did, apparently. I was working from one enormously |
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long Handbook, and the one I find now is broken into sections, but it |
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looks generally the same. I remembered |
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> I had used genkernel only once many years ago, |
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> and remember that you have to specify your root filesystem |
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> with the kernel parameter real_root=... |
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> If you do not use genkernel, you should pass the correct root partition |
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> with the kernel parameter root=... |
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> In the latter case, be sure that you have the filesystem support |
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> as well as the disk processor code compiled into the kernel |
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> (i.e. not as a module). |
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Since I installed the whole system to a qemu 'partition' inside a binary |
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file I have no access to what I've done or failed to do. So I guess I'm |
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just out of luck? I guess I will make a real DVD from the .iso and go |
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through the whole drill again on real hardware when I get it set up |
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tomorrow. It is a very long process only to come to ought, though. One |
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more chance is probably my last. |
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>> that is if I'm not already blackballed |
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>> for somehow not holding my mouth right. |
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> Why do you think that it should be problem to ask a support question, |
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> especially in a friendly way? There is no reason to stay anonymous. |
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Well, I pushed the big friendly purple button and sent off my plea for |
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help, and waited and waited, and still have not seen my original post |
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appear on this list. You should remove that button if no one bothers to |
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moderate the posts it generates. The people who push it get their first |
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impression of the 'community' when they are in trouble and are ignored. |
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You know what they say about first impressions. Get rid of that button! |
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Or read and moderate the posts it generates. |
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