On Mar 4, 2012 12:54 AM, "Grant" <emailgr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >>> I just received the new Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook and I'm trying to > >>> install Gentoo but I can't get install-amd64-minimal-20120223.iso to > >>> boot via a USB key. > >> > >> Have you tested your boot USB keys on another machine? > > > > Gentoo is installed but I can't get my USB->ethernet adapter to bring > > up an eth0 (or any other) interface. It works if I boot the Kubuntu > > USB key. I've definitely built the correct driver into the kernel > > (mcs7380). I'm going through an emerge world right now to bring > > everything up to date. Is there anything else I might need to do? > > > > - Grant > > I enabled some more kernel options under USB Network Adapters and it's > working now. The install is about done but there were a few > peculiarities: > > 1. fdisk won't let me specify a start block before 2048 even though I > deleted all partitions. >
That's normal. It's a long story, but Windows Vista and Windows 7 expects the first partition to start at sector 2048. You can force a lower number by toggling "DOS compatibility"; this should let you start the first partition as low as sector 63. HOWEVER, make sure that all partitions begin at multiples of 8 (e.g., 64, 72, 80, and so on); this will save you a lot of grief if it happens that the hard disk you're using has 4KiB-sectors. [1] > 2. grub-install reported something like: > > fd0 > hd0 > hd1 > > where hd1 was the USB key. Should I fix this to remove the USB key from grub? > I see no problem. The lower number is still the internal hard disk, so grub shouldn't have any trouble booting. > 3. Portage complains about duplicate repositories. I think it has to > do with the fact that I ran emerge --sync without downloading and > extracting an initial snapshot. > Try 'rm -rf /usr/portage', download (or copy) portage-latest tarball, and extract it into a re-created /usr/portage > Please let me know if you have any idea on these. > > - Grant > Rgds,
