[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] New Install + Celeron + linux-2.6.10 + Reboot Hang + LVM
On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 15:53, Dirk Raeder wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ow Mun Heng wrote: I'm doing a fresh install of gentoo based on the 2004.2 livecd which uses the 2.6.7 kernel. Everything installs fine, I even went ahead to compile the other stuffs before re-booting with 2.6.10 kernel. During the reboot, the monitor/boot-up messages hangs (at the arrow) vesafb: hardware supports DCC2 transfers vesafb: monitor limits: vf = 75 Hz, hf = 63 kHz, clk = 110 MHz vesafb: scrolling: redraw -- vesafb: mode switch failed (eax: 0x14f) Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30 But it seems like normal-bootup still continues, as the machine is still able to get an IP address. (but fails to start SSHD) and becomes pingable. sshd[5689]: error: Bind to port 22 on 0.0.0.0 failed: Address already in use. I had similar problem on my notebook. With the 2.6.10 kernel, framebuffer doesn't support unusual display settings like 1280x800 any more. Switching down to 1024x768 did the trick for booting. X itself has no problem with the higher solution. If that doesn't help, give the pure console a try. In other words, disable framebuffer. It was the framebuffer. I compiled 2.6.10 w vesafb (and not vesafb-tng) supposrt and it worked. I then placed the vga=xxx parameter to the kernel command line and it got me a nicer/bigger console. Sweet. Thanks to those who helped solve this stupid problem. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 13:53:15 up 4:33, 7 users, load average: 0.97, 0.85, 0.48 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] New Install + Celeron + linux-2.6.10 + Reboot Hang + LVM
I'm doing a fresh install of gentoo based on the 2004.2 livecd which uses the 2.6.7 kernel. Everything installs fine, I even went ahead to compile the other stuffs before re-booting with 2.6.10 kernel. During the reboot, the monitor/boot-up messages hangs (at the arrow) vesafb: hardware supports DCC2 transfers vesafb: monitor limits: vf = 75 Hz, hf = 63 kHz, clk = 110 MHz vesafb: scrolling: redraw -- vesafb: mode switch failed (eax: 0x14f) Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30 But it seems like normal-bootup still continues, as the machine is still able to get an IP address. (but fails to start SSHD) and becomes pingable. sshd[5689]: error: Bind to port 22 on 0.0.0.0 failed: Address already in use. I've tried a few variations of 2.6.10 kernel w/ different kernel configs etc incl the config from the 2.6.7 livecd's kernel config in /proc/config.gz. It still hangs. Loading 2.6.7 kernel (cp /mnt/livecd/boot/kernel-2.6.9 /mnt/gentoo/boot) works, I can see the login prompt (of course I get a _lot_ of error messages due to missing /lib/modules/2.6.7) I'm currently compiling 2.6.9 kernel based on 2.6.7's kernel-config. Has anyone seen/experienced with any of this? hda1 = boot hda2 = swap hda3 = root hda5-9 = LVM (home/usr/opt/var/tmp) dm-mod is already included in /etc/modules.autoload/kernel-2.6 grub.conf: kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10-r4 root=/dev/hda3 -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 14:09:03 up 4:23, 5 users, load average: 0.31, 0.23, 0.29 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New Install + Celeron + linux-2.6.10 + Reboot Hang + LVM
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ow Mun Heng wrote: I'm doing a fresh install of gentoo based on the 2004.2 livecd which uses the 2.6.7 kernel. Everything installs fine, I even went ahead to compile the other stuffs before re-booting with 2.6.10 kernel. During the reboot, the monitor/boot-up messages hangs (at the arrow) vesafb: hardware supports DCC2 transfers vesafb: monitor limits: vf = 75 Hz, hf = 63 kHz, clk = 110 MHz vesafb: scrolling: redraw -- vesafb: mode switch failed (eax: 0x14f) Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30 But it seems like normal-bootup still continues, as the machine is still able to get an IP address. (but fails to start SSHD) and becomes pingable. sshd[5689]: error: Bind to port 22 on 0.0.0.0 failed: Address already in use. I had similar problem on my notebook. With the 2.6.10 kernel, framebuffer doesn't support unusual display settings like 1280x800 any more. Switching down to 1024x768 did the trick for booting. X itself has no problem with the higher solution. If that doesn't help, give the pure console a try. In other words, disable framebuffer. - -- Dirk Raeder I prefer encrypted and signed messages. My GPG key is available at hkp://blackhole.pca.dfn.de with ID 0x05EB5446 Registered Linux user #378554 http://counter.li.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB627g2QYJ1wXrVEYRAhipAKDGjWV6Ks8h2+2mnrnbEcio9OR+UACfQk+C jAQky7y/YM+SNoyaWQvhc3E= =MCzH -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] New Install
I have heard some good things about gentoo so I am giving it a try. I started off with a stage 1 install and have made it to stage2. I have been trying to get the following to work: emerge --fetchonly system It complains about: Couldn't download db-4.1.25.tar.gz. Aborting. Couldn't download shadow-4.0.5.tar.bz2. Aborting. I have been trying for the past few days, but it is not getting any farther. Where do I go from here ? ( Besides using a stage 3 install :-) -Thanks Steve More -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New Install
On 01/15/05 14:39, Stephen More wrote: I have heard some good things about gentoo so I am giving it a try. I started off with a stage 1 install and have made it to stage2. I have been trying to get the following to work: emerge --fetchonly system It complains about: Couldn't download db-4.1.25.tar.gz. Aborting. Couldn't download shadow-4.0.5.tar.bz2. Aborting. I have been trying for the past few days, but it is not getting any farther. Where do I go from here ? ( Besides using a stage 3 install :-) -Thanks Steve More -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Maybe you could try to download the two files from here and save them to /usr/portage/distfiles/ : http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo/distfiles/db-4.1.25.tar.gz http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo/distfiles/shadow-4.0.5.tar.bz2 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New Install
Why does it fail ( connection error ? , not found on server ? ) ? Are you using the portage snapshot from the LiveCD , or have you downloaded the current tree with emerge --sync ? Which LiveCD are you using ( 2004.3 ? ) ? Are you using some sort of local mirror for downloading sources ? On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 09:39 -0500, Stephen More wrote: I have heard some good things about gentoo so I am giving it a try. I started off with a stage 1 install and have made it to stage2. I have been trying to get the following to work: emerge --fetchonly system It complains about: Couldn't download db-4.1.25.tar.gz. Aborting. Couldn't download shadow-4.0.5.tar.bz2. Aborting. I have been trying for the past few days, but it is not getting any farther. Where do I go from here ? ( Besides using a stage 3 install :-) -Thanks Steve More -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New Install
On 01/15/05 14:39, Stephen More wrote: I have heard some good things about gentoo so I am giving it a try. I started off with a stage 1 install and have made it to stage2. I have been trying to get the following to work: emerge --fetchonly system It complains about: Couldn't download db-4.1.25.tar.gz. Aborting. Couldn't download shadow-4.0.5.tar.bz2. Aborting. I have been trying for the past few days, but it is not getting any farther. Where do I go from here ? ( Besides using a stage 3 install :-) -Thanks Steve More -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Maybe you could try to download the two files from here and save them to /usr/portage/distfiles/ : http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo/distfiles/db-4.1.25.tar.gz http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo/distfiles/shadow-4.0.5.tar.bz2 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] New Install Trouble w/ Boot and GCC Update
I just got done installing Gentoo on my main box after looking at a different distro (which couldn't pick up my SATA drive). So I installed everything last night, but have run into two problems with the new install. The first problem (or issue) is when I boot the system, I do not see the series of [ ok ] checks as things load. Here are the last few lines when the system loads: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 212k freed Warning: unable to open an initial console. Adding 1028152k swap on /dev/sda3. Priority:-1 extents:1 Then I get the login prompt. My assumption is that it is the warning, but I am not sure why I'm getting it in the first place. Does anyone have any ideas why I can't see the modules loading? The second problem is when I run 'emerge --update world' and the system attempts to update to 'gcc-3.3.5-r1'. I get the follow error at the end: ... creating mkheaders creating auto-host.h * Compiling gcc ... * Setting make jobs to -j2 to ensure successful merge ... x86 /var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.3.5-r1/work/build /var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.3.5-r1/work/build /var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.3.5-r1/work/gcc-3.3.5 * Running make LDFLAGS= STAGE1_CFLAGS=-0 LIBPATH=/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5 BOOT_CFLAGS= -02 -march=pentium4 profiledbootstrap make: *** No rile to make target 'profiledbootstrap'. Stop. Any help in fixing things up would be greatly appreciated! Nick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New Install Trouble w/ Boot and GCC Update
On 01/15/05 15:55, Nicholas Pappas wrote: I just got done installing Gentoo on my main box after looking at a different distro (which couldn't pick up my SATA drive). Just curious... What distro was it? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New Install Trouble w/ Boot and GCC Update
Peng wrote: On 01/15/05 15:55, Nicholas Pappas wrote: I just got done installing Gentoo on my main box after looking at a different distro (which couldn't pick up my SATA drive). Just curious... What distro was it? Ubuntu. Heard some good things about it, so I thought I would give it a try. Guess I'll have to wait a few months for the next major release comes out to see if it will actually work for me. :) The trouble was the installer loading the 'sd_mod' module, which locked the installer up. As an update to my original post too -- I think I solved the GCC problem. I added ACCEPT_KEYWORD=~x86 (which I was using in my past install as well) and I am no compiling gcc-3.4.3 w/o any trouble (knock on wood). I'm still scratching my head over why my [ ok ]s aren't showing up at boot though. Thanks again! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New Install Trouble w/ Boot and GCC Update
About the OK's are they just not there? like missing? if your using an lcd monitor I've noticed that sometimes when my monitor and previous monitors switch between like your boot screen and X and other stuff sometimes it displays the screen shifted to the left or to your case possibly the right. It sometimes cuts off the top 3-5 lines causing the login prompt to not show on the screen or other things like that. I know some LCDs have an auto align button that should clear that up. Thats really the only thing i can think of that might cause that. On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 11:30 -0500, Nicholas Pappas wrote: Peng wrote: On 01/15/05 15:55, Nicholas Pappas wrote: I just got done installing Gentoo on my main box after looking at a different distro (which couldn't pick up my SATA drive). Just curious... What distro was it? Ubuntu. Heard some good things about it, so I thought I would give it a try. Guess I'll have to wait a few months for the next major release comes out to see if it will actually work for me. :) The trouble was the installer loading the 'sd_mod' module, which locked the installer up. As an update to my original post too -- I think I solved the GCC problem. I added ACCEPT_KEYWORD=~x86 (which I was using in my past install as well) and I am no compiling gcc-3.4.3 w/o any trouble (knock on wood). I'm still scratching my head over why my [ ok ]s aren't showing up at boot though. Thanks again! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Douglas James Dunn cell: (724) 316-8266 Secretary Phi Mu Delta Mu Theta chapter Indiana University of Pennsylvania () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. . .vir.d$b .d$$b..cd$$b. .d$$b. d$$$b .d$$b. .d$$b. ( )$$$b d$$$()$$$. d$$$b Q$$$P$$$P.$$$b. .$$$b. Q$$BP d$$$PQb. . .$$$P' `$$$ .$$$P' `$$$ $$$P Q$$$b d$$$P Qb b b..d$$$ b..d$$$ d$$P Q$$$ Q $ `Q$$$P `Q$$$P $$$P ` Q$$$P Q$$$P Q$$$P `Q$$P -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New Install
Resolving ftp6.uni-erlangen.de... failed: Host not found. Resolving vlaai.snt.ipv6.utwente.nl... failed: Host not found. Resolving chod.cwru.edu... 129.22.21.15 Connecting to chod.cwru.edu[129.22.21.15]:21... connected. Logging in as anonymous ... Error in server greeting. Downloading ftp://mirror.gentoo.ru/pub/mirror/gentoo/distfiles/db-4.1.25.tar.gz --09:33:29-- ftp://mirror.gentoo.ru/pub/mirror/gentoo/distfiles/db-4.1.25.tar.gz = `/usr/portage/distfiles/db-4.1.25.tar.gz' Resolving mirror.gentoo.ru... 213.248.55.87 Connecting to mirror.gentoo.ru[213.248.55.87]:21... connected. Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! == SYST ... done.== PWD ... done. == TYPE I ... done. == CWD /pub/mirror/gentoo/distfiles ... No such directory `pub/mirror/gentoo/distfiles'. Downloading http://www.sleepycat.com/update/snapshot/db-4.1.25.tar.gz --09:33:32-- http://www.sleepycat.com/update/snapshot/db-4.1.25.tar.gz = `/usr/portage/distfiles/db-4.1.25.tar.gz' Resolving www.sleepycat.com... 209.235.255.184 Connecting to www.sleepycat.com[209.235.255.184]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 09:33:32 ERROR 404: Not Found. !!! Couldn't download db-4.1.25.tar.gz. Aborting. !!! Fetch for /usr/portage/sys-libs/db/db-4.1.25_p1-r4.ebuild failed, continuing... I downloaded portage-20050112.tar.bz2 and I used emerge --sync per http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1chap=6 Yes, I am using the 2004.3 LiveCD I did execute mirrorselect and this is what it picked: GENTOO_MIRRORS=ftp://ftp6.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://vlaai.snt.ipv6.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/ ftp://chod.cwru.edu/ gentoo ftp://mirror.gentoo.ru/pub/mirror/gentoo/; Manually downloading will fix this problem for me, but how can we fix this problem for the next guy ? -Thanks Steve More On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 17:34:22 +0200, Ivan Yosifov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why does it fail ( connection error ? , not found on server ? ) ? Are you using the portage snapshot from the LiveCD , or have you downloaded the current tree with emerge --sync ? Which LiveCD are you using ( 2004.3 ? ) ? Are you using some sort of local mirror for downloading sources ? On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 09:39 -0500, Stephen More wrote: I have heard some good things about gentoo so I am giving it a try. I started off with a stage 1 install and have made it to stage2. I have been trying to get the following to work: emerge --fetchonly system It complains about: Couldn't download db-4.1.25.tar.gz. Aborting. Couldn't download shadow-4.0.5.tar.bz2. Aborting. I have been trying for the past few days, but it is not getting any farther. Where do I go from here ? ( Besides using a stage 3 install :-) -Thanks Steve More -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New Install
I know this happened to me before. though not an instillation problem It happens to me a lot trying to emerge cups, its been forever ago but i think it happened to me when i first installed the OS with cups. with cups a lot of the time it is indeed on the mirror though not in the distfiles directory rather its on a different directory in the mirror. maybe a symbolic link on the mirrors could fix that and others like it. though i didn't look into this current example. Though sometimes increasing the mirror count with mirrorselect pulling in and using maybe 30 or 40 mirrors instead of 3, may help, especially when the mirrors might be slightly out of sync with recent new versions and such. It shouldn't take any longer to mirrorselect it and the only real drawback to 30 or 40 mirrors is a bigger make.conf file. you still get the fastest at the front of the list when it does 404 you keep going to the next mirror. On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 11:39 -0500, Stephen More wrote: Resolving ftp6.uni-erlangen.de... failed: Host not found. Resolving vlaai.snt.ipv6.utwente.nl... failed: Host not found. Resolving chod.cwru.edu... 129.22.21.15 Connecting to chod.cwru.edu[129.22.21.15]:21... connected. Logging in as anonymous ... Error in server greeting. Downloading ftp://mirror.gentoo.ru/pub/mirror/gentoo/distfiles/db-4.1.25.tar.gz --09:33:29-- ftp://mirror.gentoo.ru/pub/mirror/gentoo/distfiles/db-4.1.25.tar.gz = `/usr/portage/distfiles/db-4.1.25.tar.gz' Resolving mirror.gentoo.ru... 213.248.55.87 Connecting to mirror.gentoo.ru[213.248.55.87]:21... connected. Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! == SYST ... done.== PWD ... done. == TYPE I ... done. == CWD /pub/mirror/gentoo/distfiles ... No such directory `pub/mirror/gentoo/distfiles'. Downloading http://www.sleepycat.com/update/snapshot/db-4.1.25.tar.gz --09:33:32-- http://www.sleepycat.com/update/snapshot/db-4.1.25.tar.gz = `/usr/portage/distfiles/db-4.1.25.tar.gz' Resolving www.sleepycat.com... 209.235.255.184 Connecting to www.sleepycat.com[209.235.255.184]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 09:33:32 ERROR 404: Not Found. !!! Couldn't download db-4.1.25.tar.gz. Aborting. !!! Fetch for /usr/portage/sys-libs/db/db-4.1.25_p1-r4.ebuild failed, continuing... I downloaded portage-20050112.tar.bz2 and I used emerge --sync per http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1chap=6 Yes, I am using the 2004.3 LiveCD I did execute mirrorselect and this is what it picked: GENTOO_MIRRORS=ftp://ftp6.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://vlaai.snt.ipv6.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/ ftp://chod.cwru.edu/ gentoo ftp://mirror.gentoo.ru/pub/mirror/gentoo/; Manually downloading will fix this problem for me, but how can we fix this problem for the next guy ? -Thanks Steve More On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 17:34:22 +0200, Ivan Yosifov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why does it fail ( connection error ? , not found on server ? ) ? Are you using the portage snapshot from the LiveCD , or have you downloaded the current tree with emerge --sync ? Which LiveCD are you using ( 2004.3 ? ) ? Are you using some sort of local mirror for downloading sources ? On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 09:39 -0500, Stephen More wrote: I have heard some good things about gentoo so I am giving it a try. I started off with a stage 1 install and have made it to stage2. I have been trying to get the following to work: emerge --fetchonly system It complains about: Couldn't download db-4.1.25.tar.gz. Aborting. Couldn't download shadow-4.0.5.tar.bz2. Aborting. I have been trying for the past few days, but it is not getting any farther. Where do I go from here ? ( Besides using a stage 3 install :-) -Thanks Steve More -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Douglas James Dunn cell: (724) 316-8266 Secretary Phi Mu Delta Mu Theta chapter Indiana University of Pennsylvania () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. . .vir.d$b .d$$b..cd$$b. .d$$b. d$$$b .d$$b. .d$$b. ( )$$$b d$$$()$$$. d$$$b Q$$$P$$$P.$$$b. .$$$b. Q$$BP d$$$PQb. . .$$$P' `$$$ .$$$P' `$$$ $$$P Q$$$b d$$$P Qb b b..d$$$ b..d$$$ d$$P Q$$$ Q $ `Q$$$P `Q$$$P $$$P ` Q$$$P Q$$$P Q$$$P `Q$$P -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New Install Trouble w/ Boot and GCC Update
About the OK's are they just not there? like missing? if your using an lcd monitor I've noticed that sometimes when my monitor and previous monitors switch between like your boot screen and X and other stuff sometimes it displays the screen shifted to the left or to your case possibly the right. It sometimes cuts off the top 3-5 lines causing the login prompt to not show on the screen or other things like that. I know some LCDs have an auto align button that should clear that up. Thats really the only thing i can think of that might cause that. On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 11:30 -0500, Nicholas Pappas wrote: Peng wrote: On 01/15/05 15:55, Nicholas Pappas wrote: I just got done installing Gentoo on my main box after looking at a different distro (which couldn't pick up my SATA drive). Just curious... What distro was it? Ubuntu. Heard some good things about it, so I thought I would give it a try. Guess I'll have to wait a few months for the next major release comes out to see if it will actually work for me. :) The trouble was the installer loading the 'sd_mod' module, which locked the installer up. As an update to my original post too -- I think I solved the GCC problem. I added ACCEPT_KEYWORD=~x86 (which I was using in my past install as well) and I am no compiling gcc-3.4.3 w/o any trouble (knock on wood). I'm still scratching my head over why my [ ok ]s aren't showing up at boot though. Thanks again! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Douglas James Dunn cell: (724) 316-8266 Secretary Phi Mu Delta Mu Theta chapter Indiana University of Pennsylvania () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. . .vir.d$b .d$$b..cd$$b. .d$$b. d$$$b .d$$b. .d$$b. ( )$$$b d$$$()$$$. d$$$b Q$$$P$$$P.$$$b. .$$$b. Q$$BP d$$$PQb. . .$$$P' `$$$ .$$$P' `$$$ $$$P Q$$$b d$$$P Qb b b..d$$$ b..d$$$ d$$P Q$$$ Q $ `Q$$$P `Q$$$P $$$P ` Q$$$P Q$$$P Q$$$P `Q$$P -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New Install Trouble w/ Boot and GCC Update
It is not just the OKs that are missing -- it is the entire line that would normally display the OKs. I'm using the same monitor (it is LCD) as I was using in my past install, but always received those lines in the past. When booting, I see that weird warning towards the end. Here are the last 5 lines of my boot screen, before I get the login prompt: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 212k freed Warning: unable to open an initial console. Adding 1028152k swap on /dev/sda3. Priority:-1 extents:1 That Warning: unable to open initial console seems awfully fishy to me. I just have not clue why it is suddenly showing up or how to fix it (if it is indeed the problem). Everything appears to loading correctly. My network, for example, is up and running -- despite the fact I never see the OK output telling my that the system is trying to bring it up, and has then succeeded. Thanks for the help! Douglas James Dunn wrote: About the OK's are they just not there? like missing? if your using an lcd monitor I've noticed that sometimes when my monitor and previous monitors switch between like your boot screen and X and other stuff sometimes it displays the screen shifted to the left or to your case possibly the right. It sometimes cuts off the top 3-5 lines causing the login prompt to not show on the screen or other things like that. I know some LCDs have an auto align button that should clear that up. Thats really the only thing i can think of that might cause that. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New Install
Stephen More wrote: I did execute mirrorselect and this is what it picked: GENTOO_MIRRORS=ftp://ftp6.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://vlaai.snt.ipv6.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/ ftp://chod.cwru.edu/ gentoo ftp://mirror.gentoo.ru/pub/mirror/gentoo/; Manually downloading will fix this problem for me, but how can we fix this problem for the next guy ? I found the best way to use mirrorselect was 'mirrorselect -i' then pick likely mirrors from the menu. In the UK, I had best results with German, Belgian and Swiss mirrors (avoiding the IPv6 ones) until my own ISP (BlueYonder) became a mirror - now I use BY and get 480K/sec downloads. :) Be lucky, Neil. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New Install
It seems mirrorselect has chosen br0ken mirros. Try removing GENTOO_MIRRORS from /etc/make.conf and running the emerge again. Using the default mirror should be slower , yet correct. If it is too slow for you , you may look at http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors.xml and set a mirror manually. As for the next guy... I suggest you file a bug , reporting mirrors X,Y,Z are br0ken so that they are removed from the mirror list mirrorselect uses. On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 11:39 -0500, Stephen More wrote: Resolving ftp6.uni-erlangen.de... failed: Host not found. Resolving vlaai.snt.ipv6.utwente.nl... failed: Host not found. Resolving chod.cwru.edu... 129.22.21.15 Connecting to chod.cwru.edu[129.22.21.15]:21... connected. Logging in as anonymous ... Error in server greeting. Downloading ftp://mirror.gentoo.ru/pub/mirror/gentoo/distfiles/db-4.1.25.tar.gz --09:33:29-- ftp://mirror.gentoo.ru/pub/mirror/gentoo/distfiles/db-4.1.25.tar.gz = `/usr/portage/distfiles/db-4.1.25.tar.gz' Resolving mirror.gentoo.ru... 213.248.55.87 Connecting to mirror.gentoo.ru[213.248.55.87]:21... connected. Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! == SYST ... done.== PWD ... done. == TYPE I ... done. == CWD /pub/mirror/gentoo/distfiles ... No such directory `pub/mirror/gentoo/distfiles'. Downloading http://www.sleepycat.com/update/snapshot/db-4.1.25.tar.gz --09:33:32-- http://www.sleepycat.com/update/snapshot/db-4.1.25.tar.gz = `/usr/portage/distfiles/db-4.1.25.tar.gz' Resolving www.sleepycat.com... 209.235.255.184 Connecting to www.sleepycat.com[209.235.255.184]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 09:33:32 ERROR 404: Not Found. !!! Couldn't download db-4.1.25.tar.gz. Aborting. !!! Fetch for /usr/portage/sys-libs/db/db-4.1.25_p1-r4.ebuild failed, continuing... I downloaded portage-20050112.tar.bz2 and I used emerge --sync per http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1chap=6 Yes, I am using the 2004.3 LiveCD I did execute mirrorselect and this is what it picked: GENTOO_MIRRORS=ftp://ftp6.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://vlaai.snt.ipv6.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/ ftp://chod.cwru.edu/ gentoo ftp://mirror.gentoo.ru/pub/mirror/gentoo/; Manually downloading will fix this problem for me, but how can we fix this problem for the next guy ? -Thanks Steve More On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 17:34:22 +0200, Ivan Yosifov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why does it fail ( connection error ? , not found on server ? ) ? Are you using the portage snapshot from the LiveCD , or have you downloaded the current tree with emerge --sync ? Which LiveCD are you using ( 2004.3 ? ) ? Are you using some sort of local mirror for downloading sources ? On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 09:39 -0500, Stephen More wrote: I have heard some good things about gentoo so I am giving it a try. I started off with a stage 1 install and have made it to stage2. I have been trying to get the following to work: emerge --fetchonly system It complains about: Couldn't download db-4.1.25.tar.gz. Aborting. Couldn't download shadow-4.0.5.tar.bz2. Aborting. I have been trying for the past few days, but it is not getting any farther. Where do I go from here ? ( Besides using a stage 3 install :-) -Thanks Steve More -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Ivan Yosifov. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New Install
Stephen More wrote: Resolving ftp6.uni-erlangen.de... failed: Host not found. Resolving vlaai.snt.ipv6.utwente.nl... failed: Host not found. Resolving chod.cwru.edu... 129.22.21.15 Connecting to chod.cwru.edu[129.22.21.15]:21... connected. Logging in as anonymous ... Error in server greeting. Downloading ftp://mirror.gentoo.ru/pub/mirror/gentoo/distfiles/db-4.1.25.tar.gz --09:33:29-- ftp://mirror.gentoo.ru/pub/mirror/gentoo/distfiles/db-4.1.25.tar.gz = `/usr/portage/distfiles/db-4.1.25.tar.gz' Resolving mirror.gentoo.ru... 213.248.55.87 Connecting to mirror.gentoo.ru[213.248.55.87]:21... connected. Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! == SYST ... done.== PWD ... done. == TYPE I ... done. == CWD /pub/mirror/gentoo/distfiles ... No such directory `pub/mirror/gentoo/distfiles'. Downloading http://www.sleepycat.com/update/snapshot/db-4.1.25.tar.gz --09:33:32-- http://www.sleepycat.com/update/snapshot/db-4.1.25.tar.gz = `/usr/portage/distfiles/db-4.1.25.tar.gz' Resolving www.sleepycat.com... 209.235.255.184 Connecting to www.sleepycat.com[209.235.255.184]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 09:33:32 ERROR 404: Not Found. !!! Couldn't download db-4.1.25.tar.gz. Aborting. !!! Fetch for /usr/portage/sys-libs/db/db-4.1.25_p1-r4.ebuild failed, continuing... I downloaded portage-20050112.tar.bz2 and I used emerge --sync per http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1chap=6 Yes, I am using the 2004.3 LiveCD I did execute mirrorselect and this is what it picked: GENTOO_MIRRORS=ftp://ftp6.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://vlaai.snt.ipv6.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/ ftp://chod.cwru.edu/ gentoo ftp://mirror.gentoo.ru/pub/mirror/gentoo/; Manually downloading will fix this problem for me, but how can we fix this problem for the next guy ? Well, in large part you can't. OK, maybe mirrorselect could be fixed to cull some of the dead mirrors-- if they are in fact dead, rather than it being a node problem where those mirrors happen to be unreachable for you at this time (but on Monday, they'll be fine)-- but other than that, there's nothing much you can do about host not found other than choose different mirrors. Similarly, 404 errors mean the file is not on the server, and there's nothing you can do about that either, other than wait for the server to sync up. I notice that db at least seems to have a mirror restrict to the source URI, insofar as I suspect that sleepycat.com is the project's site, rather than a Gentoo mirror. And if that is the case (you must download the source from the project, rather than from a Gentoo mirror), then there's really nothing we can fix-- if the files aren't on the project servers, there's nothing anyone can do but wait till they get there. Of course, if the 404 is because the files have *moved*, you could always track them down, and submit a bug to correct the ebuild. But these are really issues for another day. Get the system installed using the manual downloads, and then you can clean up your mirror situation in somewhat more comfort ;-) . Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New Install Trouble w/ Boot and GCC Update
That Warning: unable to open initial console seems awfully fishy to Seems to me that somethings wrong with your inittab... -- live free() or die() Jadex signature.asc Description: Esta parte del mensaje =?ISO-8859-1?Q?est=E1?= firmada digitalmente
Re: [gentoo-user] New Install Trouble w/ Boot and GCC Update
Jadex wrote: That Warning: unable to open initial console seems awfully fishy to Seems to me that somethings wrong with your inittab... Okay -- someplace to start looking. I'm in the middle of an '--update world' on the box in question, so I will have to wait to look at it. Is there anything specific that I should be looking for when I looking into this? My knowledge of the nuts-and-bolts is derived mostly from problems encountered; since I haven't run into this problem before, I'm not sure where to start. :) Many thanks for the help!! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New Install Trouble w/ Boot and GCC Update
About the OK's are they just not there? like missing? if your using an lcd monitor I've noticed that sometimes when my monitor and previous monitors switch between like your boot screen and X and other stuff sometimes it displays the screen shifted to the left or to your case possibly the right. It sometimes cuts off the top 3-5 lines causing the login prompt to not show on the screen or other things like that. I know some LCDs have an auto align button that should clear that up. Thats really the only thing i can think of that might cause that. On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 11:30 -0500, Nicholas Pappas wrote: Peng wrote: On 01/15/05 15:55, Nicholas Pappas wrote: I just got done installing Gentoo on my main box after looking at a different distro (which couldn't pick up my SATA drive). Just curious... What distro was it? Ubuntu. Heard some good things about it, so I thought I would give it a try. Guess I'll have to wait a few months for the next major release comes out to see if it will actually work for me. :) The trouble was the installer loading the 'sd_mod' module, which locked the installer up. As an update to my original post too -- I think I solved the GCC problem. I added ACCEPT_KEYWORD=~x86 (which I was using in my past install as well) and I am no compiling gcc-3.4.3 w/o any trouble (knock on wood). I'm still scratching my head over why my [ ok ]s aren't showing up at boot though. Thanks again! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Douglas James Dunn cell: (724) 316-8266 Secretary Phi Mu Delta Mu Theta chapter Indiana University of Pennsylvania () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. . .vir.d$b .d$$b..cd$$b. .d$$b. d$$$b .d$$b. .d$$b. ( )$$$b d$$$()$$$. d$$$b Q$$$P$$$P.$$$b. .$$$b. Q$$BP d$$$PQb. . .$$$P' `$$$ .$$$P' `$$$ $$$P Q$$$b d$$$P Qb b b..d$$$ b..d$$$ d$$P Q$$$ Q $ `Q$$$P `Q$$$P $$$P ` Q$$$P Q$$$P Q$$$P `Q$$P -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] New Install
I have a dell Inspiron 8500 notebook. I have installed using gentoo-dev-sources using stage-1. Everything worked great I booted into it and discovered that I did not configure my network card or a file system that was required by 2.6. I tryed to do another make as before but when I try to boot into it, it would not. Is there something I missed with the kernel to compress it or something so that grub will boot using it. I can only boot using the original kernel that I created. Thanks, Rob
Re: [gentoo-user] New Install
Rob, Manual compilation or using genkernel? What about error messages? Have you double checked everything is fine in /boot? Regards Jose Rob Barnett escribió: I have a dell Inspiron 8500 notebook. I have installed using gentoo-dev-sources using stage-1. Everything worked great I booted into it and discovered that I did not configure my network card or a file system that was required by 2.6. I tryed to do another make as before but when I try to boot into it, it would not. Is there something I missed with the kernel to compress it or something so that grub will boot using it. I can only boot using the original kernel that I created. Thanks, Rob -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New Install
On Thursday 12 February 2004 11:57 am, Jose González Gómez wrote: Rob, Manual compilation or using genkernel? What about error messages? Have you double checked everything is fine in /boot? Regards Jose Rob Barnett escribió: I have a dell Inspiron 8500 notebook. I have installed using gentoo-dev-sources using stage-1. Everything worked great I booted into it and discovered that I did not configure my network card or a file system that was required by 2.6. I tryed to do another make as before but when I try to boot into it, it would not. Is there something I missed with the kernel to compress it or something so that grub will boot using it. I can only boot using the original kernel that I created. Thanks, Rob -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list The first place to look is: Did you mount /boot and copy over the new bzImage? A normal Gentoo system runs with /boot unmounted. I've also heard noise that the latest genkernel doesn't mount /boot either. IMHO, genkernel is not ready for prime time, or if it is, the documentation is sadly lacking -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New Install
Jose, I am using a manual compilation. It creates the kernel and System.map. I have set it up correctly with Grub just like the first compile that I did. When I boot, it says the file is corrupt. Unfortunately, I am not near my computer to see the exact message. The kernel is twice the size as the original kernel. I even tried to compile with the orignal setting to get a kernel that matched the original, but to no success. Gracias, Rob - Original Message - From: Jose González Gómez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 10:57 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New Install Rob, Manual compilation or using genkernel? What about error messages? Have you double checked everything is fine in /boot? Regards Jose Rob Barnett escribió: I have a dell Inspiron 8500 notebook. I have installed using gentoo-dev-sources using stage-1. Everything worked great I booted into it and discovered that I did not configure my network card or a file system that was required by 2.6. I tryed to do another make as before but when I try to boot into it, it would not. Is there something I missed with the kernel to compress it or something so that grub will boot using it. I can only boot using the original kernel that I created. Thanks, Rob -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New Install
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Rob Barnett wrote: I can not find the bzImage after I do a manual make. I mount /boot myself... How do I turn the kernel into a bzImage? bzImage is in /usr/src/linux/boot/arch/arch or something like that. You can also do a make install and have it put everything into place for you. Ric - Original Message - From: Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 11:14 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New Install On Thursday 12 February 2004 11:57 am, Jose González Gómez wrote: Rob, Manual compilation or using genkernel? What about error messages? Have you double checked everything is fine in /boot? Regards Jose -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New Install
kernel is automatically created like bzImage and it can be found at arch/$architeture/boot/ like below: /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage so just copy this file to /boot and don't forget to copy System.map too, later just configure your boot loader and it's done :) claudinei matos On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 15:34, Rob Barnett wrote: I can not find the bzImage after I do a manual make. I mount /boot myself... How do I turn the kernel into a bzImage? Thanks, Rob - Original Message - From: Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 11:14 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New Install On Thursday 12 February 2004 11:57 am, Jose González Gómez wrote: Rob, Manual compilation or using genkernel? What about error messages? Have you double checked everything is fine in /boot? Regards Jose Rob Barnett escribió: I have a dell Inspiron 8500 notebook. I have installed using gentoo-dev-sources using stage-1. Everything worked great I booted into it and discovered that I did not configure my network card or a file system that was required by 2.6. I tryed to do another make as before but when I try to boot into it, it would not. Is there something I missed with the kernel to compress it or something so that grub will boot using it. I can only boot using the original kernel that I created. Thanks, Rob -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list The first place to look is: Did you mount /boot and copy over the new bzImage? A normal Gentoo system runs with /boot unmounted. I've also heard noise that the latest genkernel doesn't mount /boot either. IMHO, genkernel is not ready for prime time, or if it is, the documentation is sadly lacking -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New Install
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 12:41:46 -0500 (EST) Ric Messier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Rob Barnett wrote: I can not find the bzImage after I do a manual make. I mount /boot myself... How do I turn the kernel into a bzImage? bzImage is in /usr/src/linux/boot/arch/arch or something like that. You can also do a make install and have it put everything into place for you. To be sure, /usr/src/linux-/arch/i386/boot/ -- Collins - Denver Area - Gentoo stable kernel 2.6.2-rc1 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] New Install
Check /usr/src/linux/arch/boot for bzImage. If /boot wasn't mounted when you generated it you will have to mount /boot and copy bzImage to /boot/whateveryouwanttocallit. From: Rob Barnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/02/12 Thu PM 05:34:08 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New Install I can not find the bzImage after I do a manual make. I mount /boot myself... How do I turn the kernel into a bzImage? Thanks, Rob - Original Message - From: Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 11:14 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New Install On Thursday 12 February 2004 11:57 am, Jose González Gómez wrote: Rob, Manual compilation or using genkernel? What about error messages? Have you double checked everything is fine in /boot? Regards Jose Rob Barnett escribió: I have a dell Inspiron 8500 notebook. I have installed using gentoo-dev-sources using stage-1. Everything worked great I booted into it and discovered that I did not configure my network card or a file system that was required by 2.6. I tryed to do another make as before but when I try to boot into it, it would not. Is there something I missed with the kernel to compress it or something so that grub will boot using it. I can only boot using the original kernel that I created. Thanks, Rob -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list The first place to look is: Did you mount /boot and copy over the new bzImage? A normal Gentoo system runs with /boot unmounted. I've also heard noise that the latest genkernel doesn't mount /boot either. IMHO, genkernel is not ready for prime time, or if it is, the documentation is sadly lacking -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] New Install
Sorry, that is /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot as others have pointed out. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/02/12 Thu PM 08:37:57 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re: [gentoo-user] New Install Check /usr/src/linux/arch/boot for bzImage. If /boot wasn't mounted when you generated it you will have to mount /boot and copy bzImage to /boot/whateveryouwanttocallit. From: Rob Barnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/02/12 Thu PM 05:34:08 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New Install I can not find the bzImage after I do a manual make. I mount /boot myself... How do I turn the kernel into a bzImage? Thanks, Rob - Original Message - From: Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 11:14 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New Install On Thursday 12 February 2004 11:57 am, Jose González Gómez wrote: Rob, Manual compilation or using genkernel? What about error messages? Have you double checked everything is fine in /boot? Regards Jose Rob Barnett escribió: I have a dell Inspiron 8500 notebook. I have installed using gentoo-dev-sources using stage-1. Everything worked great I booted into it and discovered that I did not configure my network card or a file system that was required by 2.6. I tryed to do another make as before but when I try to boot into it, it would not. Is there something I missed with the kernel to compress it or something so that grub will boot using it. I can only boot using the original kernel that I created. Thanks, Rob -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list The first place to look is: Did you mount /boot and copy over the new bzImage? A normal Gentoo system runs with /boot unmounted. I've also heard noise that the latest genkernel doesn't mount /boot either. IMHO, genkernel is not ready for prime time, or if it is, the documentation is sadly lacking -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New Install
Rob, Maybe you could take a look at genkernel. Although it's a bit inmature, it's supposed to do all the dirty stuff for you, and you only have to edit the grub configuration file with the parameters provided by genkernel. About the kernel being corrupted, are you sure you are pointing grub to the right place? Maybe you have copied the wrong file? Don't worry about the size of the kernel, it depends on the things you compile into it, the more options you include, the bigger the kernel. Regards Jose Rob Barnett escribió: Jose, I am using a manual compilation. It creates the kernel and System.map. I have set it up correctly with Grub just like the first compile that I did. When I boot, it says the file is corrupt. Unfortunately, I am not near my computer to see the exact message. The kernel is twice the size as the original kernel. I even tried to compile with the orignal setting to get a kernel that matched the original, but to no success. Gracias, Rob - Original Message - From: Jose González Gómez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 10:57 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New Install Rob, Manual compilation or using genkernel? What about error messages? Have you double checked everything is fine in /boot? Regards Jose Rob Barnett escribió: I have a dell Inspiron 8500 notebook. I have installed using gentoo-dev-sources using stage-1. Everything worked great I booted into it and discovered that I did not configure my network card or a file system that was required by 2.6. I tryed to do another make as before but when I try to boot into it, it would not. Is there something I missed with the kernel to compress it or something so that grub will boot using it. I can only boot using the original kernel that I created. Thanks, Rob -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] new install - Dell Inspiron 8500
I'm installing on a Dell Inspiron w/ RH9 XP already installed. I created a partition (/dev/hda6) and I'm loading everything on their. I emerged grub, and it seems to work fine for RH9 XP, but when I boot Gentoo I get to STAGE 4 and it complains that the: Step 4: Determining root device Root block device unspecified or not detected. Please specify a device to boot, or shell for a shell. : /dev/hda6 STEP 4a: Mounting root STEP 5: Finishing up STEP 5b: seetting up stuff for pivot_root STEP 6: pivot_root and exec/chroot real init umount : /tmp/.initrd/dev: device is busy Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:06 My Grub.conf is: default=0 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd0,4)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Gentoo Linux (2.4.22-r5) root (hd0,4) kernel (hd0,4)/boot/kernel-2.4.22-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 real_root=/dev/hda6 init=/linuxrc initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd-2.4.22-gentoo-r5 title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-19.9.acpi.5) root (hd0,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-19.9.acpi.5 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-19.9.acpi.5.img title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-8) root (hd0,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img title Windows XP Professional rootnoverify (hd0,1) chainloader +1 There's two oddities that I can think of: 1) I made one partition for gentoo with a boot directory instead of a boot partition. I busy working on creating a boot partition I can use. 2) I labeled the Gentoo Partition gentoo to avoid a conflict with Redhat that requires / or no boot. (see grub.conf above). Any other ideas? --Kurt -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] new install - Dell Inspiron 8500
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 11:01:39AM -0500, Kurt Guenther wrote: I'm installing on a Dell Inspiron w/ RH9 XP already installed. I created a partition (/dev/hda6) and I'm loading everything on their. I emerged grub, and it seems to work fine for RH9 XP, but when I boot Gentoo I get to STAGE 4 and it complains that the: Step 4: Determining root device Root block device unspecified or not detected. Please specify a device to boot, or shell for a shell. : /dev/hda6 STEP 4a: Mounting root STEP 5: Finishing up STEP 5b: seetting up stuff for pivot_root STEP 6: pivot_root and exec/chroot real init umount : /tmp/.initrd/dev: device is busy Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:06 My Grub.conf is: default=0 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd0,4)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Gentoo Linux (2.4.22-r5) root (hd0,4) kernel (hd0,4)/boot/kernel-2.4.22-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 real_root=/dev/hda6 init=/linuxrc initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd-2.4.22-gentoo-r5 title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-19.9.acpi.5) root (hd0,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-19.9.acpi.5 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-19.9.acpi.5.img title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-8) root (hd0,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img title Windows XP Professional rootnoverify (hd0,1) chainloader +1 There's two oddities that I can think of: 1) I made one partition for gentoo with a boot directory instead of a boot partition. I busy working on creating a boot partition I can use. 2) I labeled the Gentoo Partition gentoo to avoid a conflict with Redhat that requires / or no boot. (see grub.conf above). Any other ideas? What is in your /etc/fstab? -- Mike -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] new install - Dell Inspiron 8500
Mike wrote: On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 11:01:39AM -0500, Kurt Guenther wrote: What is in your /etc/fstab? Nothing reasonable. I have it booting now. --Kurt -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New Install, interesting errors...
I have about the same, I also installed Gentoo, and when I reboot it, it says Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs 01:00 I don't think 01:00 is a timestamp, as someone said before, it doesn't match, and it never changes. I would also like to know what this means and what you can do about it. Yorian Krikket wrote: Okay, I've got another error that has me stumped, and I'm hoping to find some guidance here as to where I should be looking to fix this bugger. I've gone through the initial build process, starting with mke2fs and a stage 1 build. Everything seems to go pretty much flawlessly until I get to point where I reboot my system for the first time. Now I have the error: ext2-fs: ide0(3,65) couldn't mount because of unsupported features (4). kernel panic: ufs: unable to mount root fs on 03:41 I'm assuming 03:41 is the time stamp, since that matches. The only ext2 filesystem is on /dev/hda1 (boot) The only hd markers are for (0,0) in grub. (with the exception that I have root=/dev/hdb1 ) One thing that I noticed is that in the docs, grub.conf has a line: title=Gentoo Linux but the grub.conf.sample file has title Gentoo Linux I did try things with each configuration (one at a time...) but with no effect. So, does anyone have any thoughts as to what this error might mean, or what's causing it? Thanks in advance! Krikket -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] New Install, interesting errors...
Do you have ext2 built into the kernel? (File Systems - Second Extended File System or something like that)? Make sure it is in the kernel and not a module. If it is not in the kernel, then your kernel will not recognize the ext2 file system. I have been burned on this a couple times with reiserfs file systems... Steve -Original Message- From: Yorian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 2:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New Install, interesting errors... I have about the same, I also installed Gentoo, and when I reboot it, it says Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs 01:00 I don't think 01:00 is a timestamp, as someone said before, it doesn't match, and it never changes. I would also like to know what this means and what you can do about it. Yorian Krikket wrote: Okay, I've got another error that has me stumped, and I'm hoping to find some guidance here as to where I should be looking to fix this bugger. I've gone through the initial build process, starting with mke2fs and a stage 1 build. Everything seems to go pretty much flawlessly until I get to point where I reboot my system for the first time. Now I have the error: ext2-fs: ide0(3,65) couldn't mount because of unsupported features (4). kernel panic: ufs: unable to mount root fs on 03:41 I'm assuming 03:41 is the time stamp, since that matches. The only ext2 filesystem is on /dev/hda1 (boot) The only hd markers are for (0,0) in grub. (with the exception that I have root=/dev/hdb1 ) One thing that I noticed is that in the docs, grub.conf has a line: title=Gentoo Linux but the grub.conf.sample file has title Gentoo Linux I did try things with each configuration (one at a time...) but with no effect. So, does anyone have any thoughts as to what this error might mean, or what's causing it? Thanks in advance! Krikket -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] New Install, interesting errors...
Okay, I've got another error that has me stumped, and I'm hoping to find some guidance here as to where I should be looking to fix this bugger. I've gone through the initial build process, starting with mke2fs and a stage 1 build. Everything seems to go pretty much flawlessly until I get to point where I reboot my system for the first time. Now I have the error: ext2-fs: ide0(3,65) couldn't mount because of unsupported features (4). kernel panic: ufs: unable to mount root fs on 03:41 I'm assuming 03:41 is the time stamp, since that matches. The only ext2 filesystem is on /dev/hda1 (boot) The only hd markers are for (0,0) in grub. (with the exception that I have root=/dev/hdb1 ) One thing that I noticed is that in the docs, grub.conf has a line: title=Gentoo Linux but the grub.conf.sample file has title Gentoo Linux I did try things with each configuration (one at a time...) but with no effect. So, does anyone have any thoughts as to what this error might mean, or what's causing it? Thanks in advance! Krikket -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New Install, interesting errors...
On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 10:43, Krikket wrote: ext2-fs: ide0(3,65) couldn't mount because of unsupported features (4). kernel panic: ufs: unable to mount root fs on 03:41 seems to me that your kernel lacks builtin (i.e. not as a module) support for your root filesystem. Please check your kernel configuration and make sure the appropriate file system is marked as * (in menuconfig) or filesystem=y (in .config) Tom -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New Install, interesting errors...
I believe teh 3:41 is the device designation. When I've seen that on my SCSI it's something like 8:3. It thinks the kernel is on device 3:41. Was /boot mounted when you built the kernel and did you build the drivers for the boot device into the kernel? Everything seems to go pretty much flawlessly until I get to point where I reboot my system for the first time. Now I have the error: ext2-fs: ide0(3,65) couldn't mount because of unsupported features (4). kernel panic: ufs: unable to mount root fs on 03:41 I'm assuming 03:41 is the time stamp, since that matches. The only ext2 filesystem is on /dev/hda1 (boot) The only hd markers are -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] new install with 2.6 and NPTL
On Sunday 18 January 2004 00:53, Simon Prosser wrote: On Saturday 17 January 2004 22:07, Aaron Walker wrote: So to install with NPTL, do I just set the nptl use flag and bootstrap? more or less yes, you have to do /usr/portage/scripts/bootstrap26.sh so it install and compiles everything against 2.6 headers there is a fix for svgalib on bugs.gentoo.org i dont think you'll need it tho for a plain mailserver imho its worth doing nptl tho it is s much better I second that. It gives a considerable performance boost even on single processor systems. BTW, you also need to edit the linux-headers-2.6.0 ebuild to include your arch in the keywords. (the bootstrap mentions this) There's a fix for X as well. Also, at least earlier this week you also needed an unstable version of util-linux (2.12-r4). Has anyone tried nptl on a k6-2? My mother's desktop/home server has a k6-2 400MHz and it's currently quite sluggish in KDE. I have a spare hd, and I just thought whether it would be worth it to make a new installation with nptl on it. -- Jani-Matti Hätinen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] new install with 2.6 and NPTL
A friend just gave me an old computer (Celeron 533), which I was going to replace my P233 Gentoo mail server with. I want to install gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.1 (what I am currently running on the P233), but use NPTL (I have not done this on P233). I remember reading on this list a week or so ago about the only problems with using NPTL is compiling X and svgalib. I am not worried about X, since I won't be installing it, but what about svgalib? Is that something that is going to be installed on a regular gentoo installation? So to install with NPTL, do I just set the nptl use flag and bootstrap? Thanks, Aaron -- http://ka0ttic.dyndns.org/ /usr/bin/fortune says: Complex system: One with real problems and imaginary profits. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] New Install: GRUB problem
So I finally reached the point of the install where the directions say it's time to reboot, which makes me happy. So I reboot, and find out that I managed to mungle the GRUB loader. Instead of root (hd0,0), I manage to put down root (0,0). Ooops. For some reason, editing the command doesn't seem to change anything, but if I delete it and then add a replacement line, it takes. (It doesn't save that change, but it does take. So, if there are any suggestions on how to save it, please speak up!) Then I hit the letter 'b' to Boot, and I get the error message, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type is 0x83. Err, any thoughts on what I did wrong, and how I can fix it? (For hopefully obvious reasons, I'd like to avoid doing the install from square one...) Thanks in advnace, Krikket -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New Install: GRUB problem
mount /boot edit with your favorite editor /boot/grub/grub.conf that should solve all your problems Brendan On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 10:04, Krikket wrote: So I finally reached the point of the install where the directions say it's time to reboot, which makes me happy. So I reboot, and find out that I managed to mungle the GRUB loader. Instead of root (hd0,0), I manage to put down root (0,0). Ooops. For some reason, editing the command doesn't seem to change anything, but if I delete it and then add a replacement line, it takes. (It doesn't save that change, but it does take. So, if there are any suggestions on how to save it, please speak up!) Then I hit the letter 'b' to Boot, and I get the error message, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type is 0x83. Err, any thoughts on what I did wrong, and how I can fix it? (For hopefully obvious reasons, I'd like to avoid doing the install from square one...) Thanks in advnace, Krikket -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Brendan Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New Install: GRUB problem
On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 16:04, Krikket wrote: Err, any thoughts on what I did wrong, and how I can fix it? (For hopefully obvious reasons, I'd like to avoid doing the install from square one...) Assuming you installed from a CD here is how you can change your grub.conf file: boot from CD mount boot partition ala install instructions (e.g. mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo; mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot) nano -w /mnt/gentoo/boot/grub/grub.conf Hope that helps -- Cheers Dg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New Install with kernel 2.6.0
On Thursday 25 December 2003 18:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Merry Christmas... and congratulation for coming to kernel 2.6.0 world... things to be aware of in 2.6 is... ALSA is built-in feature of kernel itself and if you want to use 2.6 in gentoo, you should enable some of old file system support in pseudo file system section. and 2.6 is workin' LOVELY!!! just enjoy it ~:) Hi all Merry Xmas to those who celebrate it. I am busy with bootstrap process, on a new install, at the moment. What I would like to know is if I choose to use kernel 2.6.0 is anything different/new that I need to be aware of ??? This may have been fixed by now, but the earlier 2.5.x/2.6.0_testn releases by default did not enable the right services to support logging on from a terminal!!! Work through your .config very thoroughly. I concur 2.6.0 works just fine - used it for 3 months befor e the actual release. -- Collins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Yes. I've heard many guys had a problem from terminal things. But. As Collins said, 2.6.0 works just fine now ~:) At least, it is working' okay for me... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] New Install with kernel 2.6.0
Hi all Merry Xmas to those who celebrate it. I am busy with bootstrap process, on a new install, at the moment. What I would like to know is if I choose to use kernel 2.6.0 is anything different/new that I need to be aware of ??? Regards Wayne -- --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.555 / Virus Database: 347 - Release Date: 23/12/2003 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New Install with kernel 2.6.0
Merry Christmas... and congratulation for coming to kernel 2.6.0 world... things to be aware of in 2.6 is... ALSA is built-in feature of kernel itself and if you want to use 2.6 in gentoo, you should enable some of old file system support in pseudo file system section. and 2.6 is workin' LOVELY!!! just enjoy it ~:) Hi all Merry Xmas to those who celebrate it. I am busy with bootstrap process, on a new install, at the moment. What I would like to know is if I choose to use kernel 2.6.0 is anything different/new that I need to be aware of ??? Regards Wayne -- --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.555 / Virus Database: 347 - Release Date: 23/12/2003 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New Install with kernel 2.6.0
On Thursday 25 December 2003 18:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Merry Christmas... and congratulation for coming to kernel 2.6.0 world... things to be aware of in 2.6 is... ALSA is built-in feature of kernel itself and if you want to use 2.6 in gentoo, you should enable some of old file system support in pseudo file system section. and 2.6 is workin' LOVELY!!! just enjoy it ~:) Hi all Merry Xmas to those who celebrate it. I am busy with bootstrap process, on a new install, at the moment. What I would like to know is if I choose to use kernel 2.6.0 is anything different/new that I need to be aware of ??? This may have been fixed by now, but the earlier 2.5.x/2.6.0_testn releases by default did not enable the right services to support logging on from a terminal!!! Work through your .config very thoroughly. I concur 2.6.0 works just fine - used it for 3 months befor e the actual release. -- Collins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] New Install with kernel 2.6.0
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 26 December 2003 04:49 AM Merry Christmas... and congratulation for coming to kernel 2.6.0 world... things to be aware of in 2.6 is... ALSA is built-in feature of kernel itself and if you want to use 2.6 in gentoo, you should enable some of old file system support in pseudo file system section. and 2.6 is workin' LOVELY!!! just enjoy it ~:) Thanks For the info Regards -- --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.555 / Virus Database: 347 - Release Date: 23/12/2003 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] new install
hello, i just insatlled gentoo, and i want to browse the net; i know i'm online ,cos i can ping stuff, but i cant seem to download or browse any site or web page, it does not seen to have any browser. does it have a broswer so i can download the GUI, and X thx _ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] new install
if your in a console, using links or lynx, see that your proxy is set export http_proxy=proxy.myisp.com do the same in mozilla etc On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 19:39, Fiifi Markin wrote: hello, i just insatlled gentoo, and i want to browse the net; i know i'm online ,cos i can ping stuff, but i cant seem to download or browse any site or web page, it does not seen to have any browser. does it have a broswer so i can download the GUI, and X thx _ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- .:|:. Linux! May the Open Source be with you! |o o| http://www.menteb.org /. V .\ |/| |\| \W W/ DON'T PANIC! GnuPG key http://www.menteb.org/bram.gpg Key ID: 2F307829 @ http://pgp.mit.edu/ Fingerprint CAE0 F924 9590 4D99 7EB5 0A12 D0C7 63C2 2F30 7829 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] new install
Check this out: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/desktop.xml .. .. ian... .. www.ianneubert.com -Original Message- From: Fiifi Markin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 10:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] new install hello, i just insatlled gentoo, and i want to browse the net; i know i'm online ,cos i can ping stuff, but i cant seem to download or browse any site or web page, it does not seen to have any browser. does it have a broswer so i can download the GUI, and X thx _ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] new install
i already tried lynx and links, they r both not present The days of life, the days of death; the days that come and the days that go; the days r the same as u must know; however the day goes, is that which u chose From: R'twick Niceorgaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] new install Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:23 -0400 On 31 Jul 2003 at 17:39, Fiifi Markin wrote: hello, i just insatlled gentoo, and i want to browse the net; i know i'm online ,cos i can ping stuff, but i cant seem to download or browse any site or web page, it does not seen to have any browser. does it have a broswer so i can download the GUI, and X thx lynx ? links ? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list _ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] new install
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 31 July 2003 13:53, Fiifi Markin wrote: From: R'twick Niceorgaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip On 31 Jul 2003 at 17:39, Fiifi Markin wrote: hello, i just insatlled gentoo, and i want to browse the net; i know i'm online ,cos i can ping stuff, but i cant seem to download or browse any site or web page, it does not seen to have any browser. does it have a broswer so i can download the GUI, and X thx lynx ? links ? i already tried lynx and links, they r both not present Probably because you haven't emerged them yet. (At least one of them should be present on the LiveCD outside of the chroot, btw.) Assuming you're on x86, check out the installation guide[1] and desktop configuration guide[2] for more info on how to get networking and X. The FAQs[3,4] are useful resources as well. 1. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml 2. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/desktop.xml 3. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/faq.xml 4. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewforum.php?f=40 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/KWhlXVaO67S1rtsRAtcPAKD6n0pw5TpOhnzApC/UKijlOHEmFwCg400Z qhX+ULlj54CIPRTak6vS8bw= =f5RA -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] new install
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 18:53:53 + Fiifi Markin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i already tried lynx and links, they r both not present I am not sure where you are in the process, but if you can ping IPs but not URLs, then look to your /etc/resolv.conf file and make sure that it contains the proper DNS servers for your ISP. If that is all right, then try emerge lynx -p. That will tell you whether you have lynx installed. If not, remove the -p and it will be downloaded and installed for you. If you want X and a browser, then you should be able to do something like emerge mozilla -p. This will list a long group of packages to be emerged, including X. This assumes that you want to use mozilla of course. You can see what other browsers are available in portage by looking in the /usr/portage/net-www directory. HTH. -- Ian Truelsen Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: ihtruelsen Homepage: http://www.ihtruelsen.dyndns.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] new install
On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 11:53, Fiifi Markin wrote: i already tried lynx and links, they r both not present Have you tried emergeing them? emerge lynx Jayson Garrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] new install: twm OK, but KDE not working
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, problem is solved - thx for helpink! :-) Karl-Heinz On Friday 18 July 2003 01:08, Karl-Heinz Zimmer wrote: running startx works: twm shows up but running kdm only shows a gray window: normally this is the case if the laptop is run in an incopatible video mode. - -- Karl-Heinz Zimmer, Senior Software Engineer, Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. H. L. Mencken, 1880 - 1956 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/F7fQCcaVnbvggDcRAiH8AKD9hGC9qvCNk/GstP7Agegid4uxLACfT6V0 7AfGZ9ZvudL0eJOJQz66VnU= =ZHmh -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] new install: twm OK, but KDE not working
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, this is my 1st mail to this list - if I ask an FAQ please tell me where I can read the answer ad forgive me! ;-) After installing Gentoo from scratch on a new HD in my Acer Travelmate 260 laptop I have the following problem: running startx works: twm shows up but running kdm only shows a gray window: normally this is the case if the laptop is run in an incopatible video mode. How can this be? If normal startx is OK, obviously my key presses in xf86config were Ok as well - so why doesn't KDE start nicely? (I made a completely fresh emerge including an emerge kde) TIA, Karl-Heinz -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/FyxuCcaVnbvggDcRAgkhAKCwut/gNsUqW58uwR1S6WkHXw4gCwCfYmqR ik3o3q+J0x3vHS9kXIhBHZ4= =XcIt -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] New Install
Hey all, i just purchased a new hard drive( one of those bad boys with 8MB of cache) and i should be getting it later in the week. I'm going to do a fresh install of gentoo, and i want to know if there is anyway to keep my current config, so that all i have to do is copy the file to the new instalation, and type emerge world and walk away. One more side note, how do i do the above but w/ gcc3.3. I think that in the rebuilding of the system, it would be a perfect time to try out gcc3.3. According to this list most people using it don't have any problems, is that still correct??? Thanks in advance, bryce -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
