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GigaStorm Guest
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Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2002 12:24 pm Post subject: problem with booting gentoo |
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hi
after i installed gentoo as it is described in the install manual, i cant boot it correctly.
it starts, but it seems that it doesnt start any scripts.
it mounts my root fs as read-only and starts a bash
(root-fs is reiserfs, boot-fs is ext3)
there are no errors
anyone has an idea? |
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klieber Bodhisattva
Joined: 17 Apr 2002 Posts: 3657 Location: San Francisco, CA
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Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2002 12:28 pm Post subject: Re: problem with booting gentoo |
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This:
GigaStorm wrote: | it starts, but it seems that it doesnt start any scripts. | and this: GigaStorm wrote: | there are no errors |
are mutually-exclusive. There have to be some errors if your rc scripts aren't starting. Did you emerge a logging system? Anything in the logs? What "scripts" aren't starting?
We need more information before we can help you.
--kurt _________________ The problem with political jokes is that they get elected |
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Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2002 12:56 pm Post subject: |
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the last line of my boot msg's:
reiserfs: checking transaction log (device 03:03)
Warning, log replay starting on readonly filesystem
reiserfs: replayed 12 transactions in 2 seconds
Using r5 hash to sort names
ReiserFS version 3.6.25
VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly
Freeing unsused kernel memory: 220k freed
init-2.05a#
i emerged sysklogd
my fstab looks like this:
/dev/hda1 /boot ext3 noauto,noatime 1 1
/dev/hda3 / reiserfs noatime 0 0
/dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
/proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 |
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BonezTheGoon Bodhisattva
Joined: 14 Jun 2002 Posts: 1408 Location: Albuquerque, NM -- birthplace of Microsoft and Gentoo
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Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2002 8:50 pm Post subject: |
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I am getting the same result now with my Gentoo 1.4 beta installation. I'm sure I have done something wrong--but I am having trouble isolating what it is. I first assumed it was something in my kernel, and have recompiled my kernel three times taking out things I wasn't confident should be there and also modularizing some things that I could (USB). I since then decided that since the file system was being mounted as read only that I would check my fstab -- but it looks fine to me! I finally decided to check the forums so that I don't waste my time recompiling and chasing down silly fixes that don't work. I am actually using XFS for my boot and root file systems, so my situation is different than the earlier posters. I am particularly puzzled by this, I have never had this and I have built many gentoo boxes. Note that once at this prompt (whoami indicates I am root, without providing the password I established during install) I am unable to use either 'reboot' or 'shutdown' both are unknown commands. 'Exit'ing causes a kernel panic saying something tried to kill init. So that's about all the helpful information I have on the matter, any suggestions??
Thanks,
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BonezTheGoon Bodhisattva
Joined: 14 Jun 2002 Posts: 1408 Location: Albuquerque, NM -- birthplace of Microsoft and Gentoo
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Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2002 10:33 pm Post subject: |
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So in searching the forums more I found this other thread. The other description seems to fit my situation pretty accurately. I was surprised to read about the timezones because this was the first time I didn't get cities listed for timezones, instead there were actual timezones listed (so this time installing gentoo, different from all other times for me, I chose US/Mountain instead of US/Denver.) So does this mean I should try recompiling glibc or should I start over again? Any suggestions??
Thanks!
Regards,
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BonezTheGoon Bodhisattva
Joined: 14 Jun 2002 Posts: 1408 Location: Albuquerque, NM -- birthplace of Microsoft and Gentoo
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Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2002 1:45 am Post subject: |
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Well I'm not sure what the problem is but I can tell you how I fixed it. I booted with the Gentoo CD and then mounted my existing paritions, and chroot(ed) into my installed Gentoo system. Then I did a bootsrap.sh and rebooted--now everything is fine! YAY!
Regards,
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