Immediate reboot after GRUB loading

twan

Before i ask my question: i DID searched through google and on these forums.

Question:
I've been busy these days building a gentoo system on a Via Epia M9000. After some problems i had because of my system that is not very compatible with i686.. i got this weird problem now..

Everything is compiled, umounted everything, then rebooted. Grub shows up fine, i hit enter to speed up the start up process. And then my screen went off again and the computer rebooted. It does that everytime.

I don't really know what i should post here from config files so if you need something let me know.

Thanks in advance

EDIT: Could it be my Use variables in make.conf that are a bit weird ? I forgot the uncomment it (forgot the take away the # ) and compiled the kernel without those use var's. :roll:

psyqil · Advocate Joined: 26 May 2003 Posts: 2767

I don't think you're USE-flags are involved, you should at last see the kernel coming up, post your grub.conf for a start and tell me what an Epia M9000 is :?:

D. M. P. inc · Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2004 6:55 pm Post subject:

i got that problem 2 days ago, too bad i was piss so i just redid everything. anyhow da ans is in ur grub set to root then ur kernel link just check or post that here
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twan · Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2004 7:07 pm Post subject:

psyqil · Advocate Joined: 26 May 2003 Posts: 2767

So you do not use a framebuffer and you do not see any grub errors. I assume while 're-grubbing' weren't any errors either, so it's the kernel...first I'd remove any APM/APCI/ACPI-stuff...

twan · Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2004 7:44 pm Post subject:

yeah i heard from some other people that it was the kernel too

i'll do what you said, trying it out now

psyqil · Advocate Joined: 26 May 2003 Posts: 2767

Now look at this https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=121587

leads to http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=368

twan · Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2004 10:09 pm Post subject:

well yeah, i found that gentoo guide for epia boards too but that links isn't working anymore.

A couple kernel builds later it's still not working. I got one option left.. gonna try that tomorrow

psyqil · Advocate Joined: 26 May 2003 Posts: 2767

??? Works for me???

twan · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 9:20 pm Post subject:

yeah that links works fine, but i meant the wiki website, but apparently it is mirrored now.

No more reboots after grub now.. it says 'uncompressing linux.. booting kernel' after grub loading.. but the prompt just stays there

abdul_ado · n00b Joined: 20 Jan 2004 Posts: 1

i too have one of these boards, picked it up real cheap and am looking at turning it into a firewall/router box and am having the exact same problem with it.

I noticed at the VIAARENA web site they said that you should compile for a 486 or a 586 if you are feeling game as not all of the i686 instructions are supported. i havent tried this on my box as it is at home at the moment an my internet has been suspended temporarily so i cant download any sources at the moment, but i am fairly hopeful this will work.

twan · Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 3:53 pm Post subject:

i found my problem now. Apparently i did something wrong in the kernel. Although i have checked the options several and several times, i gave it up for a while and emerged genkernel to do it automatically. Genkernel gives me a perfect booting kernel and now i see my root.

I have problems with xfree now (font problem). I'm not sure wether it's me of a wrong kernel :roll:

cr0s · n00b Joined: 25 Jul 2006 Posts: 1