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oDy n00b
Joined: 05 Dec 2004 Posts: 72 Location: Thessaloniki - Greece
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Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 3:45 pm Post subject: weird boot messages |
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Hello i just did a stage3 installation and after many failed installations I was finally able to boot into my system. I used genkernel to compile my kernel
and grub as a boot manager. I edited grub.conf as the installation guide
suggested but when the system booted I got some errors and it didn't boot to the correct root directory. I edited grub.conf like this:
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default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo Linux 2.4.25
root (hd0,2)
kernel /kernel-2.4.25-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/hda6 vga=794
initrd /initrd-2.4.25-gentoo-r1
title=Windows XP
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
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and finally I was able to boot to my system.
The problem is I was still getting the same errors during boot and they look like this (I got this from dmesg):
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RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 1936k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Mounted devfs on /dev
attempt to access beyond end of device
01:00: rw=0, want=4171, limit=4096
attempt to access beyond end of device
01:00: rw=0, want=4172, limit=4096
attempt to access beyond end of device
01:00: rw=0, want=4173, limit=4096
attempt to access beyond end of device
01:00: rw=0, want=4174, limit=4096
EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,6)): ext2_read_super: mounting ext3 filesystem as ext2
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Trying to move old root to /initrd ... failed
Unmounting old root
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also the boot partiton doesn't mount automaticaly even though I have it in my /etc/fstab file which looks like this:
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/dev/hda3 /boot auto noauto,noatime 1 2
/dev/hda4 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda6 / ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/hda1 /home/windowsXP auto defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 /home/plits auto defaults 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user 0 0
#/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto 0 0
# NOTE: The next line is critical for boot!
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
# glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for
# POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink).
# (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will
# use almost no memory if not populated with files)
# Adding the following line to /etc/fstab should take care of this:
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults 0 0
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I search the forum but I couldn't find something helpful so I decided to post.
Anyway sorry for the long post and thanx in advance for any help |
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keyson l33t
Joined: 10 Jun 2003 Posts: 830 Location: Sweden
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Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 3:57 pm Post subject: |
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Hi welcome to Gentoo.
You must use a ramdisk for the init read. you have
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kernel /kernel-2.4.25-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/hda6 vga=794
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it must be
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kernel /kernel-2.4.25-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8196 real_root=/dev/hda6 vga=794
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And about the /boot partition
You have
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And it say noauto so it would not get mounted. The auto is for
autosensing the filesystem.
-Kjell
EDIT
P.S. Best is to set the rigt filesystem in the fstab for boot and not
using auto. |
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oDy n00b
Joined: 05 Dec 2004 Posts: 72 Location: Thessaloniki - Greece
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Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 6:30 pm Post subject: |
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Thanx a lot. I was missing the ramdisk=8196 option so that's why i didnt boot properly. In the installation guide from the cd i installed ramdisk=8196 wasn't mentioned so that's why i didn't use it.
Thanx again |
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FoxHunter4460 n00b
Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 1
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Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2004 4:05 am Post subject: |
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