What am I missing?

sparks · Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 12:26 am Post subject: What am I missing?

I have heard great things about the development kernel, but as of now I have no luck getting my system to boot one. I have tried the vanilla dev-sources, and mm-sources since but no luck with either. I have module-init-tools emerged and have recompiled the nividia drivers after each kernel compile. What else am I missing? My Hardware is an Epox 8RDA+ nForce2 with Athlon XP 2400+ 512mb DDR if tha mtakes any differene. Thansk for your insight.
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Jeff Binder · Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 2:26 am Post subject:

Are you using the same configuration you used before? What happens when you try to boot?
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pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

Moved from Installing Gentoo.
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floam · Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 3:13 am Post subject:

If you could actually tell us what's wrong we could try to help you.

sparks · Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 3:42 am Post subject:

Hey sorry, I didn't give you much info to go on did I. Well, when I boot up just about the only thing that load correctly is vcron and maybe a few other things, when the kernel is initializing the services most fail to load. Modules don't load xfont server doesn't kdm doesn't it goes by so fast I can't give the exact details but most of the screen is red with errors instead of the usual green [ok].
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True trade is honest, but not merciful. Politics is dishonest, no matter how merciful... and war is neither honest nor merciful.... therefore, choose trade above politics, but politics above war.

floam · Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 3:59 am Post subject:

shift+arrow up lets you scroll up on the console. go back and try to figure out what fails

sparks · Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 5:55 pm Post subject:

Ok, last night I tried to recompile a 2.5.68 kernel and a 2.5.69 kernel, both got me less than the 2.5.69-mm-sources. Here is a screen shot to show you what I mean. The computer locks up right after I select the new kernel in grub.

2.5.68 kernel screen shot:
http://www.bzsparks.com/images/2.5.68

2.5.69 kernel screen shot:
http://www.bzsparks.com/images/2.5.69

Another 2.5.69 screen shot:
http://www.bzsparks.com/images/2.5.69_1

I think I've compiled in all the options in the kernel I should have, I followed the gentoo install guide for that. Does anyone have any ideas?
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True trade is honest, but not merciful. Politics is dishonest, no matter how merciful... and war is neither honest nor merciful.... therefore, choose trade above politics, but politics above war.