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uzibear
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 8:54 am    Post subject: troubleshooting: where to start?? Reply with quote

oh, well. tried to reboot and got a page of text with something at the top like "so you can fix the driver" or something. well, i certainly screwed up somewhere. only question is where? i'm loathe to write down that whole screen and post it here, but is that what i should do?? i did a stage3 x86 install with genkernel and basically all the "example" commands etc. except that i used kernel 2.6.11; and yes, i adjusted for that in grub. well, i would imagine it would be hard for you to help me without more info, but i never know. i didn't emerge any special programs at all or anything. another potential issue is that at the end i wasn't sure if i actually umount-ed what i was supposed to :) hehe. shall i copy that screen down? any things i should try?

system:
sempron 2200+ (rebadged athlonxp)
seagate 160gb ide hd
512mb kingston 3200ram
cheapest MSI socket A mobo (unsure of name) with onboard vid and sound
rosewill cdrw/dvd drive
onboard LAN with internet connection that worked right away without messing with it (cable)

well, that's about it
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 1:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You should post at least the last 5 lines, if not more.


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PostPosted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 5:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The last few line would be a good place to start. Also, if you could post the messages just before the kernel started giving you errors, that would be useful in troubleshooting as well. My first suggestion, without knowing anything about the problem, would be to enable ACPI in the kernel menuconfig under
Code:
Power Management Options ->
              ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) ->
                          [*]  ACPI Support
Then reinstall the kernel, add the option acpi=on at the end of the kernel line in your grub.conf, and reboot. See if that fixes the hangup. Alot of boot hangups can be fixed this way. However, not knowing anything about your problem, this is sortof a shot in the dark. :?
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 5:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

uzibear wrote:
...i did a stage3 x86 install with genkernel and basically all the "example" commands etc. except that i used kernel 2.6.11...

Sith_Happens wrote:
...would be to enable ACPI in the kernel menuconfig under...

I didn't think Genkernel made you do menuconfig...but anyrate.

uzibear wrote:
i wasn't sure if i actually umount-ed what i was supposed to
There a small chance that this is the problem, but I'd doubt it.

What exactly does the machine do? Does it eventually make it to a command prompt, or does it though these debugging messages at you and die?

Also do you have debug or something like that in your USE flags? The kernel shouldn't be asking you to debug it unless you really want it to :)
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 6:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

destuxor wrote:
I didn't think Genkernel made you do menuconfig...but anyrate.

It doesn't "make you", however it is often useful. You can enter the menuconfig using the --menuconfig option, i.e.
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genkernel --menuconfig all
# or
genkernel --menuconfig kernel
Until I see some error messages though, I don't have a clear idea of what the problem or solution is here.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 11:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i've reinstalled and had the same error. i didn't get the error with kernel 2.4 strangely enough. i'll try the acpi thing. i've axe'd this thred: the current thread is the "error message" one
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 11:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Please give us some more info, we can't possibly figure out what the problem is.

try apic=off and acpi=off
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