RE: [gentoo-user] First install - Grub hard disk error
I am using Genkernel 1.5 from a live CD I got before Christmas, is it possible to download a newer Genkernel and use it with my existing Livecd, I have a slow link. I tried removing the initrd but this did not help. It seems as if it does not even see the kernel on the boot partition, and I would have thought the splash screen would appear but it does not. Marc Lonestar wrote: Assuming you're using one of the Genkernel 3.0 beta versions, I've had trouble with those also. There seems to be something in the creation of the initrd that gives errors. Comment out the initrd line in your grub config and try booting. Works for me (on three different systems I've built). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] First install - Grub hard disk error
Hello, I have been trying to install gentoo 1.4 on my laptop 'IBM thinkpad' but cannot boot from the harddisk. I have followed the instructions in the handbook to the letter, the only odd occurance that happened was when using genkernel to compile, I recieved this message: copying system.map to /boot/system.map-2.4.20-gentoo-r5 mv: cannot stat 'boot/system.map': no such file below I have placed the commands I used to setup grub and below this is the fstab and grub files, please help I'm stuck? grubroot (hd0,0) grubsetup (hd0) My fstab file /etc/fstab /dev/hda1 /boot ext2noauto,noatime 1 2 /dev/hda2 noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/hda3 / ext3noatime 0 1 none/proc procdefaults0 0 none/dev/shmtmpfs defaults0 0 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0/mnt/cdromauto noauto,user0 0 My grub file /boot/grub/grub.conf default 0 timeout 30 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title=Gentoo Linux 2.4.20 root (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.4.20-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/hda3 initrd (hd0,0)/initrd-2.4.20-gentoo-r5 thank you Marc -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] First install - Grub hard disk error
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 01:21:19PM +1000, Marc Forrest wrote: Hello, I have been trying to install gentoo 1.4 on my laptop 'IBM thinkpad' but cannot boot from the harddisk. I have followed the instructions in the handbook to the letter, the only odd occurance that happened was when using genkernel to compile, I recieved this message: copying system.map to /boot/system.map-2.4.20-gentoo-r5 mv: cannot stat 'boot/system.map': no such file below I have placed the commands I used to setup grub and below this is the fstab and grub files, please help I'm stuck? grubroot (hd0,0) grubsetup (hd0) My fstab file /etc/fstab /dev/hda1 /boot ext2noauto,noatime 1 2 /dev/hda2 none swapsw 0 0 /dev/hda3 / ext3noatime 0 1 none /proc procdefaults0 0 none /dev/shmtmpfs defaults0 0 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0/mnt/cdromauto noauto,user0 0 My grub file /boot/grub/grub.conf default 0 timeout 30 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title=Gentoo Linux 2.4.20 root (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.4.20-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/hda3 initrd (hd0,0)/initrd-2.4.20-gentoo-r5 The new genkernel doesn't mount /boot automatically. You will have to mount it manually yourself. mount /dev/hda1 /boot or mount /boot Then you can rerun genkernel or copy the necessary files to /boot. HTH Mike -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] First install - Grub hard disk error
Thank you for that, I booted using the LiveCD and mounted the drives including /dev/hda1 to /boot, I then executed genkernel again, this time no error apeared. I checked all the settings for grub and ran the grub setup again. The Grub hard disk error still appears when I reboot. The new genkernel doesn't mount /boot automatically. You will have to mount it manually yourself. mount /dev/hda1 /boot or mount /boot Then you can rerun genkernel or copy the necessary files to /boot. HTH Mike -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] First install - Grub hard disk error
Assuming you're using one of the Genkernel 3.0 beta versions, I've had trouble with those also. There seems to be something in the creation of the initrd that gives errors. Comment out the initrd line in your grub config and try booting. Works for me (on three different systems I've built). Marc Forrest wrote: Hello, I have been trying to install gentoo 1.4 on my laptop 'IBM thinkpad' but cannot boot from the harddisk. I have followed the instructions in the handbook to the letter, the only odd occurance that happened was when using genkernel to compile, I recieved this message: copying system.map to /boot/system.map-2.4.20-gentoo-r5 mv: cannot stat 'boot/system.map': no such file below I have placed the commands I used to setup grub and below this is the fstab and grub files, please help I'm stuck? grubroot (hd0,0) grubsetup (hd0) My fstab file /etc/fstab /dev/hda1 /boot ext2noauto,noatime 1 2 /dev/hda2 noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/hda3 / ext3noatime 0 1 none/proc procdefaults0 0 none/dev/shmtmpfs defaults0 0 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0/mnt/cdromauto noauto,user0 0 My grub file /boot/grub/grub.conf default 0 timeout 30 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title=Gentoo Linux 2.4.20 root (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.4.20-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/hda3 initrd (hd0,0)/initrd-2.4.20-gentoo-r5 thank you Marc -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Johnny Sistumz injunear -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] First install question
Krikket wrote: I'm going through my first install of Gentoo, and I've run across a problem... [SNIP] Hmm. I no longer have lynx or links2 available, so I can't download it, but I figured I can live without the documentation, so I proceeded anyway. So, what did you do? Did you remove doc from your USE-flags and proceed with emerge system, or did you just move on? If you did the latter one, you need to finish emerge system first, before continuing to kernel installation. (Although basically this shouldn't matter) You can finish emerge system by issuing: USE=-doc emerge system, or you can switch to another vt (with Alt+F2) which hasn't been chrooted to the new environment (and thus still has lynx and links2) and use it to download the documentation. I chose the vanilla-sources for the type of kernal, and run emerge --usepkg vanilla-sources. Did this emerge finish without problems? What does emerge -vp vanilla-sources tell you? Then I do a ls -s /usr/src/linux, and find nothing. A direct ls find the directory *empty*. I can create the link using ln -s /usr/sec/linux-2.4.22 /usr/src/linux as long as I leave off the preceding rm /usr/sec/linug Obviously this doesn't do me any good, as there isn't a linux-2.4.22 subdirectory. What's that rm /usr/sec/linug ... thing? AFAIK you shouldn't need to delete anything during the whole installation process. -- Jani-Matti Hätinen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] First install question
Krikket kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika Torstai 15. Tammikuuta 2004 21:12): I just moved on... Thank you for pointing out that the USE-flags need to be edited. Emerge ufed. It makes the process of setting USE flags a lot less painful. At any rate, by removing the doc flag, things are working Thank you *very* much for the help! You're welcome. -- Jani-Matti Hätinen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] First install question
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Jani-Matti Hätinen wrote: Krikket kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika Torstai 15. Tammikuuta 2004 21:12): I just moved on... Thank you for pointing out that the USE-flags need to be edited. Emerge ufed. It makes the process of setting USE flags a lot less painful. Good to know. Thanks again! Krikket -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] First Install
I am not real sure whats happening, if your pids are changing, then you may be ok. Worse case, reboot the laptop with the live cd, remount the drives, chroot, and just begin where you left off.. This is a CD type problem so your HD should be ok.. snip Messages follow (having to type it in) hdc: tray open end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector x cloop: Read error at post xx in file /newroot/mnt/cdrom/livecd.cloop, 31093 bytes lost cloop: error -3 uncompressing block 264 65536/0/31093/0 5384715-5415808 snip -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] First Install
PS do a env-update then source /etc/profile after chroot.. Then begin where you left off.. Forgot that.. :) I am not real sure whats happening, if your pids are changing, then you may be ok. Worse case, reboot the laptop with the live cd, remount the drives, chroot, and just begin where you left off.. This is a CD type problem so your HD should be ok.. snip Messages follow (having to type it in) hdc: tray open end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector x cloop: Read error at post xx in file /newroot/mnt/cdrom/livecd.cloop, 31093 bytes lost cloop: error -3 uncompressing block 264 65536/0/31093/0 5384715-5415808 snip -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] First Install
I have proceeded through the install procedure to step 16.3. At this point genkernel has been at the point of : Running make modules... (not exactly certain, text has scrolled past more on that later). It has been at this stage for about 15 or more minutes. Mike, On the machine I'm discussing in the SATA thread, I did a Stage 3 install last night with GRP. (I don't know what GRP is, so I skipped it.) The make modules step on my box, a NForce2 with an Athlon-XP 2500+ easily took 15-20 minutes, and possibly 30. I'm not sure. I think genkernel builds more stuff than I might if I did the kernel by hand, and I'm assuming your laptop is not faster than my desktop. 15 minutes was likely not enough. That said, next time I doubt I'll use genkernel as I'm just not sure yet what it's doing. - Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] First Install
On Nov 5, 2003, at 2:01 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: I have proceeded through the install procedure to step 16.3. At this point genkernel has been at the point of : Running make modules... (not exactly certain, text has scrolled past more on that later). It has been at this stage for about 15 or more minutes. Mike, On the machine I'm discussing in the SATA thread, I did a Stage 3 install last night with GRP. (I don't know what GRP is, so I skipped it.) The make modules step on my box, a NForce2 with an Athlon-XP 2500+ easily took 15-20 minutes, and possibly 30. I'm not sure. I have been building a lot the last few days on a dual Athlon 2800+ machine with lots o' RAM. Even on that the modules step is probably 10 minutes or more and it uses -j4 on make. Chad ps: use genkernel --config to set the kernel stuff to build in or out -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] First Install
do a env-update then source /etc/profile after chroot.. Then begin where you left off.. Forgot that.. :) I am not real sure whats happening, if your pids are changing, then you may be ok. Worse case, reboot the laptop with the live cd, remount the drives, chroot, and just begin where you left off.. This is a CD type problem so your HD should be ok.. Ok. Well I continued with the install. Configured GRUB, etc. I exited the chroot as instructed. The non-chroot environment was having serious problems (the my previous message in this thread -- cloop: and hdc/cdrom). I could not cleanly reboot, since it could not find anything on the cloop: filesystem anymore. I had to poweroff :( I rebooted and confirmed that I can still load WinXP so atleast I got GRUB configured correctly. Now to boot under Gentoo. Ok. It booted, phew! Now what? oh yeah Portage User Guide. Inevitably you will hear from me again. Thanks - Mike Hogsett -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] First Install
The make modules step on my box, ...Athlon-XP 2500+ easily took 15-20 minutes Ok thanks for the info. - Mike Hogsett -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] First Install
At 04:01 PM 11/5/2003, you wrote: The make modules step on my box, a NForce2 with an Athlon-XP 2500+ easily took 15-20 minutes, and possibly 30. I'm not sure. I think genkernel builds more stuff than I might if I did the kernel by hand, and I'm assuming your laptop is not faster than my desktop. 15 minutes was likely not enough. I'd have to time 'make modules' as I've got the same CPU. I know that 'make bzImage' takes less than 4 minutes, so I don't imagine that building the modules takes much longer. What does genkernel all do ?? I know it builds busybox, but that shouldn't add that much longer to the process. Hall -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] First Install
On Nov 5, 2003, at 2:27 PM, Hall Stevenson wrote: At 04:01 PM 11/5/2003, you wrote: The make modules step on my box, a NForce2 with an Athlon-XP 2500+ easily took 15-20 minutes, and possibly 30. I'm not sure. I think genkernel builds more stuff than I might if I did the kernel by hand, and I'm assuming your laptop is not faster than my desktop. 15 minutes was likely not enough. I'd have to time 'make modules' as I've got the same CPU. I know that 'make bzImage' takes less than 4 minutes, so I don't imagine that building the modules takes much longer. modules takes a comparatively longer time than bzImage. It all depends of course on what you have all selected in the config menu (if you have modified your configuration with --config) What does genkernel all do ?? I know it builds busybox, but that shouldn't add that much longer to the process. That is wicked quick Chad Hall -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] First Install
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 05 November 2003 21:27, Hall Stevenson wrote: At 04:01 PM 11/5/2003, you wrote: The make modules step on my box, a NForce2 with an Athlon-XP 2500+ easily took 15-20 minutes, and possibly 30. I'm not sure. I think genkernel builds more stuff than I might if I did the kernel by hand, and I'm assuming your laptop is not faster than my desktop. 15 minutes was likely not enough. I'd have to time 'make modules' as I've got the same CPU. I know that 'make bzImage' takes less than 4 minutes, so I don't imagine that building the modules takes much longer. What does genkernel all do ?? I know it builds busybox, but that shouldn't add that much longer to the process. A stock genkernel config includes shed loads of modules, as it has to, really. The kernel is creates does need to work on virtually every possible configuration. Busybox does seem to take a fair amount of time, probably not quite as long as the kernel. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/qXBdInuLMrk7bIwRAsBcAJ934kfAM8/XANk0ICRcZEg47FgGCwCeKYY8 sX0LhkNRCw5ljAEuXA4DCk0= =/RXF -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] First Install
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 05 November 2003 21:49, Mike Williams wrote: Busybox does seem to take a fair amount of time, probably not quite as long as the kernel. Maybe it's just my slow celery 650 then, if Chad's take no time at all :) - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/qXMwInuLMrk7bIwRAp9mAJ9qnpi14juJw75VvoBMUa1hEIqWnQCfcdA1 w9AnwkvtHFYhAc4WCr3W1tU= =+NVN -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] First Install
On Nov 5, 2003, at 3:01 PM, Mike Williams wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 05 November 2003 21:49, Mike Williams wrote: Busybox does seem to take a fair amount of time, probably not quite as long as the kernel. Maybe it's just my slow celery 650 then, if Chad's take no time at all :) Well, a dual Athlon 2800+ with lots of memory (though the disk is probably slower than it needs to be -- promise raid in mirror config for redundancy) should probably outrun your 650... I would hope so or I want my money back :-) Is probably louder than your celery too -- replaced two of the fans with Vantec Tornado fans (84 cfm and noisy)... Luckily it will be installed in a rack in a computer room once it is all configured. Chad -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] First Install
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 21:10, Mike Hogsett wrote: The make modules step on my box, ...Athlon-XP 2500+ easily took 15-20 minutes I'm not using genkernel here and just did a 'make bzImage'. Not sure if Setup and or System sizes tell you if my kernel is heavy on stuff compiled in or built as modules, but here's the info: Boot sector 512 bytes. Setup is 4771 bytes. System is 990 kB warning: kernel is too big for standalone boot from floppy make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.23_pre8-gss/arch/i386/boot' real2m51.033s user2m40.220s sys 0m8.570s And now for 'make modules': real0m58.266s user0m51.080s sys 0m3.000s Heh, I must not have a lot built as modules ! Regards Hall -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] First install trouble
Hi, This is my first post and first install and I'm having a few problems. I've gone through all the stages of the install and got the setup of grub. When rebooting. Grub pops up with the normal menu. I hit enter and the kernel says Uncompressing Kernel and all the normal stuff. Then after detecting some stuff. It says: ds: no socket drivers loaded Kernel Panic: VFA: Unable to mount root fs on 03:03 Then it hangs. I followed the instructions to setup grub using: root (hd0,0) setup (hd0) My partitions are: /dev/hda1 /boot ext3 /dev/hda2 /swap /dev/hda3 / reiserfs grub.conf was also copied from the install instructions default 0 timeout 30 splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz title=Gentoo root (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda3 I've tried the paths with /boot/ and without and it doesn't make a difference. I have added reiserfs and ext3 to the kernel options. I checked the forum but none of the suggested fixes matched my problem exactly. Does any one have any idea what I can do next? Thanks in advance for any help, Jordan -- Jordan Elver Eagles may soar high, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines. -- David Brent (The Office) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] First install trouble
On Tuesday 01 April 2003 12:43 pm, Jordan Elver wrote: Hi, This is my first post and first install and I'm having a few problems. I've gone through all the stages of the install and got the setup of grub. When rebooting. Grub pops up with the normal menu. I hit enter and the kernel says Uncompressing Kernel and all the normal stuff. Then after detecting some stuff. It says: ds: no socket drivers loaded Kernel Panic: VFA: Unable to mount root fs on 03:03 Then it hangs. I followed the instructions to setup grub using: root (hd0,0) setup (hd0) My partitions are: /dev/hda1 /boot ext3 /dev/hda2 /swap /dev/hda3 / reiserfs grub.conf was also copied from the install instructions default 0 timeout 30 splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz title=Gentoo root (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda3 I've tried the paths with /boot/ and without and it doesn't make a difference. I have added reiserfs and ext3 to the kernel options. I checked the forum but none of the suggested fixes matched my problem exactly. Does any one have any idea what I can do next? Thanks in advance for any help, Jordan From what I see after a brief google search this has something to do with PCMCIA. Are you installing on a laptop? If so, try removing any pcmcia cards, and post results. -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] First install trouble
You have reiserfs support build-in in the kernel ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ds: no socket drivers loaded Kernel Panic: VFA: Unable to mount root fs on 03:03 Then it hangs. I followed the instructions to setup grub using: root (hd0,0) setup (hd0) My partitions are: /dev/hda1 /boot ext3 /dev/hda2 /swap /dev/hda3 / reiserfs grub.conf was also copied from the install instructions default 0 timeout 30 splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz title=Gentoo root (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda3 I've tried the paths with /boot/ and without and it doesn't make a difference. I have added reiserfs and ext3 to the kernel options. I checked the forum but none of the suggested fixes matched my problem exactly. Does any one have any idea what I can do next? Thanks in advance for any help, Jordan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] First install trouble
From what I see after a brief google search this has something to do with PCMCIA. Are you installing on a laptop? If so, try removing any pcmcia cards, and post results. No, this is a desktop P200 I got for £10 :) It's strange. Do my grub.conf and setup look correct? I'm assuming that they are, because I wouldn't get the Kernel starting to load at all else, am I correct? -- Jordan Elver Statistics are like a lamp-post to a drunken man - more for leaning on than illumination. -- David Brent (The Office) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] First install trouble
You have reiserfs support build-in in the kernel ? Yes, I am sure. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] First install trouble
On Tuesday 01 April 2003 05:51 pm, Jordan Elver wrote: From what I see after a brief google search this has something to do with PCMCIA. Are you installing on a laptop? If so, try removing any pcmcia cards, and post results. No, this is a desktop P200 I got for £10 :) It's strange. Do my grub.conf and setup look correct? I'm assuming that they are, because I wouldn't get the Kernel starting to load at all else, am I correct? I agree. If the grub.conf is bad you won't get that far. I'd suspect your kernel configuration but not sitting there I'm at a loss. Others on the list could probably find a problem if you attached your /usr/src/linux/.config and posted processor and chipset info. Good luck! -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
