From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] early boot failure, not sure how to diagnose
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 22:40:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5204023D.5020705@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC4mkfuV-cdqm1zh8QobysPJ9pJdvT3v-jXEba-f7JByr4HUZw@mail.gmail.com>
Am 08.08.2013 10:43, schrieb Daiajo Tibdixious:
> I got new hardware for a home desktop a few days ago.
> Downloaded install-amd64-minimal-20130801.iso and am still booting
> from that cd as hard drive boot fails.
>
> I turned on logging in /etc/rc.conf, but no /var/log/rc.log is produced.
> The disks are mounted but readonly. I guess from this the problem is
> occurring before the root partition is mounted.
>
> I only have 4 partitions: boot, swap, root, and home. Since everything
> important is on the root partition, I'm not using an initramfs.
>
> I have many times tried to catch the error by watching the screen, but
> it scrolls past way to fast.
>
> The last part of the boot messages before things go crazy is
> "Switching to clocksource TSC".
>
> I've been reading up on grub, but don't see anyway to get more info on
> what is going wrong.
>
> If I boot from the cd and chroot to the disk, everything seems to work
> fine. /boot is ext2 fs and this is my grug.conf:
> default 0
> timeout 20
> splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
>
> title Gentoo Linux 3.8.13
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /boot/3.8/13-0/bzImage root=/dev/sda3
>
and what is happening?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-08 20:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-08 8:43 [gentoo-amd64] early boot failure, not sure how to diagnose Daiajo Tibdixious
2013-08-08 20:40 ` Volker Armin Hemmann [this message]
2013-08-08 23:07 ` Daiajo Tibdixious
2013-08-08 23:24 ` Drake Donahue
2013-08-09 0:32 ` Drake Donahue
[not found] ` <520438eb.6698320a.28a0.27aaSMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@mx.google.com>
2013-08-09 4:07 ` Daiajo Tibdixious
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