more help please

even · Posted: Fri May 07, 2004 7:44 pm Post subject: more help please

ok so after 4 days and lots of help from you guy's (cheers) i managed to get and install of gentoo on my system. only problem is after i finished i rebooted waiting to get in to my lovely new nix system grub comes up and i egerly hit enter to load gentoo and my system just reboot. though it might be a grub config error so i emerged lilo and exactly the same thing happens. is it gona be a simply fault like i typoed the kernel-2.4.25-gentoo or something or is it more extream.
please help me i'm getting kinda edgy as i keep getting closer and closer to haveing a working system.

Thnaks for all the help so far and the more to come hopefully
Even
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Tii · l33t Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Posts: 733

Can you please post your system configuration (what hardware and how is your harddrive partitioned at least) and your grub.conf (and/or lilo configuration file whatever that is) for those of us who don't already know your situation.

even · Posted: Fri May 07, 2004 8:24 pm Post subject:

ok hardware is scrap box.
amk k6-2 400Mhz cpu
20Gb hdd
64Mb ram
some old graphics card

grub conf is

daveb · Posted: Sat May 08, 2004 3:12 am Post subject: Re: more help please

even · Posted: Sat May 08, 2004 7:33 am Post subject:

where and how would i have selected the pocessor, if it's the cflags then they are set right. otherwise i change it and recolime the kernel and see what happens.

thanks
Even
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daveb · Posted: Sat May 08, 2004 1:40 pm Post subject:

This would have been when you configure your kernel. Did you manually configure your kernel or use genkernel?
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schlesi · Posted: Sat May 08, 2004 1:58 pm Post subject:

even,

if you want to use a graphical user interface, you should put more RAM in your box, if possible. 64MB is IMHO too less (it works, but slowly).

May be you should upgrade your kernel to 2.6. If I remember right, it has a better memory managment than the 2.4-kernel.

Thomas

even · Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 1:59 pm Post subject:

i haven't even bothered trying to put a gui on it even though i've had xfce running on much less ram, what i'm really after is a system that boots
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