Installation Issues With Current Stage3 Tarballs

NeddySeagoon · Last edited by NeddySeagoon on Wed Apr 18, 2012 9:23 pm; edited 3 times in total

The current stage3 tarball with baselayout2 is broken. If you used an April 2011 stage3 tarball, that has baselayout1 and you may have different problems if you missed the baseylayout upgrade guide.

The content of its /dev is wrong, it contains only a normal file called null of zero length. A minimum of three character device special files are needed for udev to start and the boot process to proceed normally. Taken from a working system ...

randyz · n00b Joined: 10 Feb 2007 Posts: 1

I began a fresh install this morning and encountered the same problem. After implementing your steps I now have a booting system. Thanks!

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun May 29, 2011 7:59 pm Post subject:

randyz,

Thank you for testing.
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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun May 29, 2011 8:26 pm Post subject:

Moved from Documentation, Tips & Tricks to Installing Gentoo.
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d3x73r · n00b Joined: 16 Apr 2010 Posts: 55 Location: Bahia/Brazil

That fixed my problem too...
I have just did the same steps and my system was able to boot after a fresh install.
Shouldn't this be in official documentation, since it's on new stage3 tar ball?

Thanks! I'll keep compiling now! :wink:

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 5:38 pm Post subject:

d3x73r,

Nope - the problem is with the stage3 tarball. The things in my post should already be there for you
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rado3105 · Apprentice Joined: 14 Jul 2007 Posts: 293

Same in here.
Creating symlink you meant? cd /mnt/gentoo/etc/runlevels/sysinit right?
after creating symlink it should look like this?

666threesixes666 · Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 10:21 pm Post subject: thanks

thanks for the update, you resolved a few of my issues....

ld c3 respawning too fast... no more processes left in this run level...

after writing this post, it shows a bunch of cannot execute /sbin/agetty messages

i built gentoo on a virtual machine under ubuntu. i am getting ready to flip flop, i like source based distributions better than binary. when i delete my ubuntu im gonna install windows7 on the hard drive, need more video games, then make a gigantic gentoo partition for virtual machine management.

i wish someone would come along and make a simple ALFS + portage script / install cd =( i like ALFS for its simplicity and that everythings being generated from source.

no more processes left in this run level... solved

It was a problem with fstab

The root and boot filesystems had 'user' appended to them.

booting now =D easy enough.

only problem is no users/root to log in now ?? i must of forgotten to set a password as chroot for su.... next install ill remember to do that.

i took what i learned and moved it over to a physical computer. new stage3 for june 4th. it still unpacks incorrectly, and this fix still works for it and boots the instilation. your commands do not work from the live cd. they should be......

audiodef · Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2011 2:00 pm Post subject:

Aha. I was wondering about these things. Good to know I haven't gone insane.

Well, even more insane.
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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2011 2:07 pm Post subject:

666threesixes666,

It depends on your Present Working Direcotry. I wrote the original post before chrooting but after doing

daniel glenn · n00b Joined: 07 Jun 2011 Posts: 1

thx man, for your help - its running to fast now

diegomichel · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 85

Have reinstalled Gentoo 3 times yesterday, tough was some kernel miss configuration or file system corruption since mounted root as read only always >.<, thanks for the fix Neddy.
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drobbins · Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 3:15 am Post subject:

Yep, I had to fix this in Funtoo Linux when we switched to baselayout 2 -- around September 2008. I added a tweak to Funtoo's baselayout to create the device nodes. You will likely need to tweak catalyst as well as baselayout. You should also force baselayout maintainers to build stage3s. One of the Funtoo "rules" is that all core team members need to use Metro (our catalyst) to build stages regularly. This way, these problems tend to resolve themselves rather than get passed on to releng.

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matt2kjones · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Mar 2004 Posts: 94

I had the same problem today.

Creating the device nodes fixed everything for me.

Although the quick install guide does need to be updated. It states to edit files like /etc/conf.d/clock when it should be /etc/conf.d/hwclock
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jody · l33t Joined: 16 Oct 2007 Posts: 676 Location: Switzerland

Thanks for that info - it helped me a lot!

Do you think these things will be fixed in the stage3 soon?
The stage3 from June 9 still had the same issue...

Thanks
Jody

nCdy · n00b Joined: 30 Aug 2010 Posts: 5

oh... after this stage3 I love funtoo more.
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Trovalds · Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 2:00 am Post subject:

First time here, Gentoo user since... a long time.

Well, any news about a fix? It's anoying to do these workarounds and sometimes they do not work at first time. I have 2 machines waiting for a Gentoo fresh install.

PS: sorry for my bad english, not my native language.

Treekodar · n00b Joined: 15 Jun 2011 Posts: 2

Boot from USB:

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DirtyHairy · Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2011 6:02 pm Post subject:

Thanks, Neddy, you just made my day --- after doing my gentoo install (by far not my first, I'm definitely no novice here

), I was sitting dumbstruck in front of my new T420 and watched the boot stop after "freeing unused kernel memory". I had a vague idea that this might be related to the contents of /dev, but you saved me propably hours of experimenting and searching. Any chance that this will get fixed soon in the stage3 tarballs?

madnbri · n00b Joined: 10 Apr 2011 Posts: 69

Hello,
I've read and followed this topic and not solved my problem. My first boot stops at:

FaeLLe · n00b Joined: 13 Aug 2007 Posts: 13 Location: London

You can refer to the instructions from a Gentoo Developer at,

http://dev.gentoo.org/~a3li/openrc.txt

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arcfxn · n00b Joined: 31 Jan 2011 Posts: 74 Location: NY, USA

Same here, can't boot with 2.6.38-r6 / current tarball even after following this guide.

Thanks, though. I'll keep working on it and check that I haven't done something wrong.

edit: Note that this is a fresh install. Shouldn't be any problems with openrc migration or anything like that.

arcfxn · n00b Joined: 31 Jan 2011 Posts: 74 Location: NY, USA

I'm getting the "...init-early.sh used greatest stack depth..." error just after freeing unused kernel memory, obviously.

I found while following the steps above that the files you were asking me to create were already present - I replaced them, but maybe that lends some insight into why I'm not getting any results from this.

udev was not present in the sysinit runlevel until the link was added.