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tjscollins
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 Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2013 6:23 am Post subject: Kernel loads, but boot process does not continue |
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I have a bizarre problem that I have never seen before. Just finished installing Gentoo on a new laptop and it does not boot and gives no apparent error messages.
The kernel loads fine, detects the hard drive, mounts the root partition, detects my wifi chip, usb peripherals etc., and then just stops. The boot scripts never start.
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The Doctor
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Well, it might help to see the problem...
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tjscollins
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There were no error messages logged to post, but I figured it out.
Turned out I used one of the bad stage3 tarballs (an old one from last fall) that didn't have /dev populated correctly (only had /dev/null, not /dev/console or /dev/zero) so udev couldn't fill the rest of /dev out. Once I fixed that the system booted. |
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