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PostPosted: Sun Dec 01, 2002 12:44 am    Post subject: Grub starts to load kernel, then dies Reply with quote

Had to reinstall Gentoo. Had to do it nonstandard (no cdrom on laptop), so I did it as usual with a small Mandrake partition, then followed the instructions for stage2, then 'emerge system' worked, then 'make menuconfig' etc worked and I built a kernel and then installed grub.

Now when it tries to boot it finds the kernel, starts to load, and then at some point it just ... dies. Stops. Freezes. No login prompt. I've rebuilt the kernel several times, to for instance remove USB support, to put the ethernel card in a module, and so on, but all it does is to change the exact place where it ... freezes.

Here's a sampler:

... (good stuff deleted)
PCI: Assigned IRQ 10 for device 00:0a.0
usb.c: registered new driver hub
Yenta IRQ list 0ab8, PCI Irq10
... (few more lines deleted)
uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xfcc0, IRQ 10

And then it stops, forever.

Major bummer, especially since it took over a day to build everything, and everything built just fine. Really don't want a pure Mandrake system.

Thanks,

TeXon
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 01, 2002 8:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Maybe you could temporarly use your Mandrake kernel too boot, to see if it's a kernel problem.... (should have devfs compiled in),

Hope you fix it,

Cya lX.
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 01, 2002 9:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Try booting off the gentoo install CD and chrooting into the environment and recompiling the kernel again. That is what I had to do one time, when I forgot to make a menu.lst file.

That should work for ya.

Any thing else let us know.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 02, 2002 12:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Actually, a big problem is that my laptop doesn't have a CDROM. I have a backpack paralled cdrom, but that doesn't let me boot.

But I finally got a working gentoo, anyway! I followed somebody else's advice and built with 'emerge vanilla-sources' instead of gentoo-sources. That worked! Excellent!

Now I'm busy building xfree. Xfree will take awhile so when I finally get to gnome it should be good to go. Really looking forward to this again.

Later,

teXon
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