I've just completed first part of a fresh install. Mounted the new root and emerged a few things while still chrooted.
It'd be difficult to list quickly since I can't boot it, but the highlights are: eix genkernel gentoolkit gentoolkit-dev gentoo-sources grub lynx ntp reiserfsprogs rsyslog vim vixie-cron And a number of dependancies pulled in from my use flags. I didn't want to start from scratch dinking around with kernel params so elected to go the `genkernel all' route, hoping that with that much junk being compiled... surely I'd get whatever I needed to start the process of building up this installation. I realize there are many who have lots of rants against genkernel but unless you think that is the core of the problem... please hold off on advice to build my own kenel. kernel = 2.6.29-r5 What I see on reboot: Normal booting appears to be going along then moments after dev is mounted followed by filesystems... a massive screen full of text begins scrolling by and never stops. Impossible to read any of the text and neither pause/break or scroll/lock keys have any effect. Appears to be a continuous wrapping line repeated. But it completely kills the boot process, and no further progress is possible. I really have no idea what to change when I boot off the install media.
