On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 14:04, Andrew Farmer wrote: > At 11 July, 2003 Loopingz wrote: > > I'm a newbie on Gentoo, i've made the installation from stage 1, > > compile everything and when i reboot the system, i see Grub then when > > i choose to load the linux, it seems to load the kernel, but the > > screen go black and after 2 seconds the system is rebooting. I think > > it's a kernel compilation problem but i don't know the solution. > > Indeed, it does sound like you've done something wrong while compiling > your kernel. Unfortunately, without further information we can't do much > to try to diagnose the problem. However, here's how you can recompile > the kernel: > > 1. Boot up from your install CD. > 2. Mount your /boot and / using the same mount command you did earlier > when you were installing. Do NOT rebuild the file system using mke2fs or > similar - this will delete everything you've built so far! > 3. chroot back into the installation. > 4. Go back to /usr/src/linux-whatever, make mrclean, make menuconfig, > etc. Start with the default build settings, then add devfs and > anything that sounds like it would be immensely important for your > setup. Also make sure to include RTC support, as a module. > (Otherwise, Gentoo will complain.) > 5. Rerun grub.
One thing to check in your kernel config is the processor type. If it is set to the wrong type, it will constantly reboot like this. Robert -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
