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oDy
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 3:45 pm    Post subject: weird boot messages Reply with quote

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:
Code:

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


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):

Code:

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


also the boot partiton doesn't mount automaticaly even though I have it in my /etc/fstab file which looks like this:

Code:

/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


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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PostPosted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 3:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi welcome to Gentoo.

You must use a ramdisk for the init read. you have
Quote:

kernel /kernel-2.4.25-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/hda6 vga=794

it must be
Quote:

kernel /kernel-2.4.25-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8196 real_root=/dev/hda6 vga=794


And about the /boot partition
You have
Quote:
/dev/hda3 /boot auto noauto,noatime 1 2

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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PostPosted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 6:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Mon Dec 06, 2004 4:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

thanks i was having a similar problem!
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