Re: [gentoo-amd64] early boot failure, not sure how to diagnose

[Daiajo Tibdixious <daiajo@gmail.com>]

Logged in after failed boot.
/home & /boot are mounted, but nothing in them when I ls.
ls of / shows all the normal things there.

While logged in, I'm still getting boot messages, where USB devices,
eg the mouse, disconnect and reconnect.

There are a ridiculous number of sd devices in /dev. sda, sdb, sdc,
sdd all go to 15. sda is the hard drive, sdb/sdc for USB devices.
Never had sdd.

Did see some errors, notably "cannot mount /run" bad superblock or
something like that. Its hard to scroll back with USB messages
constantly appearing, half a screenful each time.

On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 6:40 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann
<volkerarmin@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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?
>