The machine I posted about earlier (GRUB GRUB GRUB...) is dead. It hung booting the 2005.0 CD, and if I booted a DriveImage CD with a DOS partition, every key on the keyboard was echoed ^A. Ah well.
So I just installed another machine, using the 2005.0 CD and using the new instructions. It has a Matrox G400 so I added support for that in the kernel. This may have been a mistake. Everything is fine until I reboot, when after the GRUB screen and kernel selection, the screen goes black with lots of pretty blue squares all over it. Nice, but not helpful in logging in. And of course sshd isn't enabled by default. No matter, I reboot off the CD, mount everything, do the chroot thing and add sshd to the default runlevel, reboot and I can get in remotely. I guess I will rebuild the kernel with Matrox support removed and see if that fixes. BTW, what is the received wistom wrt building things into the kernel or building them as modules? As well as the G400 I have an Intel NIC and a VIA sound card, and this time round chose to build them in, though before I built them as modules. I'm not clear as to the pros and cons. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
