Freeze on first boot

gsfgf · Veteran Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 1266

I just installed gentoo and rebooted. THe com now freezes w/out giving an error.

Here are the last few lines outputted.

gsfgf · Veteran Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 1266

Based on a responce from the mailing list i disabled XFS now ther error is after the line before.

fghellar · Posted: Thu May 09, 2002 2:32 am Post subject: Re: Freeze on first boot

gsfgf · Veteran Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 1266

OK. I wasn't sure what was needed:
Specs: vanilla kernel b/c the icluded netcard drivers were giving me compatability errors w/ the gentoo kernel.
fstab:

klieber · Posted: Thu May 09, 2002 3:01 pm Post subject:

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klieber · Posted: Thu May 09, 2002 11:15 pm Post subject:

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Guest · Posted: Fri May 10, 2002 1:08 pm Post subject:

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fryfrog · n00b Joined: 09 May 2002 Posts: 45

hummm, i was up and had just finished compiling a fair number of things (kde and lots of little things). i rebooted to see if my "rc-update" change would work and low and behold i am getting the same error. i'm typing this by hand.

my /etc/fstab is modified to suit my system (hda1 = /boot, hda2 = swap, hda3 = /)... and there it goes booting now... after about 3 power cycles it finally booted.

but, the error was identical to the one in the opening post for devfs.

TJJ · n00b Joined: 11 Jan 2006 Posts: 3

I had the same problem, and when I try to edit /etc/fstab it tells me:

nixnut · Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 7:02 pm Post subject:

Mount the root partition of your harddisk installed gentoo first. You are now trying to edit the livecd and cd's are usually readonly. If you mount it on /mnt/gentoo (like you did for the installation) you then edit it with nano -w /mnt/gentoo/etc/fstab
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TJJ · n00b Joined: 11 Jan 2006 Posts: 3

Thanks a lot, problem solved.

Ripster · Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 4:36 pm Post subject:

MickKi · Veteran Joined: 08 Feb 2004 Posts: 1173

You should use the LiveCD (any LiveCD) to mount your / partition just like the installation guide says (but do not mkfs because you'll format your partitions). Use nano to edit your /etc/fstab. Instead of /dev/ROOT you should enter the partition of your /, e.g. /dev/hda3. Same applies for all your other partitions.
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Ripster · Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 11:14 am Post subject:

Thanks for the reply. After a few attempts I now have a running system, albeit command-line only at present. As you'd expect the problems were with my grub.conf and /etc/fstab. Next challenge will be to get a GUI running...

MickKi · Veteran Joined: 08 Feb 2004 Posts: 1173

There's the easy option: emerge an all singing - all dancing KDE or Gnome display environment;

or there's the more difficult option: emerge a display manager like fluxbox, iceWM, Window Maker, etc., most of which need some configuration by hand to make look nice(r), then emerge individual applications as needed. A slicker but more time consuming approach.

Before all that of course you need to emerge xorg and set it up to recognise your video card, monitor, mouse and keyboard. If you look at the supporting Gentoo documentation and guides you should be up and running in no time at all (other than the mamoth installs of KDE/Gnome).

Good luck!

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Ripster · Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 11:07 pm Post subject:

I made the 'schoolboy error' of starting to emerge xorg at about 0100 today. Sat there for a LONG time watching and waiting to test, only to find my mouse is not detected (a common or garden ps2 mouse so shouldn't be too hard to fix, I hope).

Unfortunately I'm now stuck at work for a while so can't play with my new toy. From your comments can I assume that emerging KDE and Gnome will take longer than xorg did? I didn't time it but would guess at 45-60 mins for xorg on my box, is it possible for you to estimate how long KDE and Gnome would take from that info, or does it not correlate that way?

Finally, is there any benefit to emerging both KDE and Gnome? (Apart from obviously being able to use both). I ask because I have used KDE with Mandrake, didn't especially like the look of Gnome

Sorry about all the questions! :oops:

Regards

Graham

MickKi · Veteran Joined: 08 Feb 2004 Posts: 1173

No need to apologise for asking questions! How else are you going to receive a targeted answer?

You'll need to sort out your mouse and monitor first. Until I sorted out my mouse I couldn't even launch X. It would crash the machine.

Emerging the complete monolithic KDE ebuild or KDE-meta which pulls in all the KDE packages takes forever. On my old box (600MHz PIII, 256MB RAM) emerging xorg and KDE monolithic took almost three days - including some borked ebuilds which I had to fix before emerge continued. On a fast, modern machine it could take as little as 9-10hr.

On the other hand, you now have the KDE meta packages. Just emerge what you need for a minimal install following the Gentoo KDE documentation guide and you'll have a working KDE environment in no time at all. Thereafter emerge additional KDE meta packages if/as you need them, followed by some additional applications (e.g. kftpgrabber), and eyecandy (e.g. ksmoothdock, themes, etc.)

There's no need to emerge Gnome (I haven't). Careful that some ebuilds will try to pull Gnome in, even if you have "-gnome, -gtk" in your USE flags: e.g. if I remember right trying to emerge OpenOffice was dragging in all of the gnome libs; the fix here in order to keep gnome out was to put -eds in the USE flags in /etc/make.conf.

Since you now have a working prompt searching for answers and questions on this topic ought to follow in the Desktop Environments forum.

Good luck,
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Ripster · Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 12:35 am Post subject:

Thanks for the reply Mick. Have got my mouse sorted (/dev/input/mouse0 rather than /dev/mouse was needed) but am having other snags now with installing X. I'll start a new thread on that in Desktop environments, would be grateful if you could take a look?

Regards

Graham

Po0ky · Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 7:22 am Post subject:

If your partition is mounted ro you can always try running
mount -o remount,rw /
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Topher200 · n00b Joined: 02 Feb 2006 Posts: 7 Location: Rhode Island

I am installing Linux for the first time, and I am almost done with the install, but I can't boot the system. When I turn the computer on, I get grub, choose Linux, and wait. Tons of commands flood the screen, all looking fine, until an error:

global_dev · n00b Joined: 01 Feb 2006 Posts: 9

My thread was also shut down and moved as well, cited as a dup, but i don't see but a slim reference with a suggestion that I have already previously implemented that the majority of this doesn't address my situation practically or technically. There seems like 3 conversations about fstab without references going on at once and the rest of this thread talks about environments. Was the mod a bit hasty or am i missing something?

I had already searched scanned through threads to make sure someone else hadn't solved this same situation. That is how i decided to change the /dev/Root to /dev/sda3.

My boot display references /dev/ROOT/dev/ROOT (not a typo).

here is the original thread
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-429119.html
Post subject: Boot fails although install manual followed verbatim

The thread here duplicates /dev/boot twice in fstab. My issue is not editing read-only files, my issue is something in the booting process after selecting my kernel in grub loader that wants to check my ext3 filesystem as ext2 and saying it is not legit. I also couldn't get a livecd like ubuntu or kubuntu to boot past "loading hotplug subsystem", even though the univ live cd had no problem, which how i wanted to post the code here without setting up ssh and logging into another computer.

I have spent much time 3x from beginning and so i think i have the process understanding of what things are and why they are necessary, but this has taken more than 10 hours over 2 days of watching the screen that i need a break. I will post the file contents, once my head is clear and my eyes don't hurt.

Topher200 · n00b Joined: 02 Feb 2006 Posts: 7 Location: Rhode Island

*bump*

Still no responce... I'm looking for any suggestions at all...

deadaim · Guru Joined: 27 Oct 2003 Posts: 467 Location: Florida

Topher200 & global_dev:

To help you we are going to need the output of the following commands: