RE: [gentoo-dev] Re: Problems with initial gentoo rc5 binary inst all - GRUB

RE: [gentoo-dev] Re: Problems with initial gentoo rc5 binary inst all - GRUB

[Greer, Darren (MED)]

The symlink was something I tried "once".  I installed twice, and I
/did/ have a /mnt/gentoo/boot/boot/grub directory, and both times grub
would not install.  With the same error each time.  

The fact that the error was trying /boot/grub/stage1 and not
/boot/boot/grub/stage1 was the only reason I tried the symlink.  

Everything you state, is what I did, with /mnt/gentoo/boot being the
mount, etc.  So,  am not sure why grub did not like it.

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Robbins [mailto:drobbins@gentoo.org]
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 12:26 PM
To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Problems with initial gentoo rc5 binary
inst all - GRUB


On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 09:59:32AM -0500, Greer, Darren (MED) wrote:
> Ok, thinking I must have screwed something up...I re-did the entire
> install, making sure I did it exactly as documented, and I get the
same
> exact error:
> 
> grub> root (hd0,0)
>  Filesystem type is reiserfs, partition type 0x83
> 
> grub> setup (hd0)
>  Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no
>  Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... no
> 
> Error 15: File not found

When you installed Gentoo Linux, your boot partition should have been
mounted
at /mnt/gentoo/boot.  I don't know what you're talking about with this
symlink
hack that you keep mentioning; all I can say it that any "fixes" of this
sort
are not required.  Once Gentoo Linux is installed from the install CD,
you
should have a /mnt/gentoo/boot/boot/grub directory.  Please note that
"boot/boot" *is* correct and shouldn't be changed at all.  As long as
you had
your reiserfs boot partition mounted at /mnt/gentoo/boot, all should be
well.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Problems with initial gentoo rc5 binary inst all - GRUB

[Daniel Robbins]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 12:38:12PM -0500, Greer, Darren (MED) wrote:
> The symlink was something I tried "once".  I installed twice, and I
> /did/ have a /mnt/gentoo/boot/boot/grub directory, and both times grub
> would not install.  With the same error each time.  
> 
> The fact that the error was trying /boot/grub/stage1 and not
> /boot/boot/grub/stage1 was the only reason I tried the symlink.  
> 
> Everything you state, is what I did, with /mnt/gentoo/boot being the
> mount, etc.  So,  am not sure why grub did not like it.

OK, gotcha.

The next thing to verify is that you use the "-o notail" option to mount
your ReiserFS boot partition.  If you didn't, then GRUB won't be able to
read those files and will produce the errors you described.

Quick fix: mount your boot partition with notail, copy the files to another
partition, zap the original files, and then copy them back.  When they are
recreated, their tails won't be packed.  Tail packing is a Reiserfs thing
that messes up most boot loaders.

Best Regards,

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
President/CEO					http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.			

RE: [gentoo-dev] Re: Problems with initial gentoo rc5 binary inst all - GRUB

[Greer, Darren (MED)]

Thanks so much.  Now, to try and get ftp working through the firewall :)

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Robbins [mailto:drobbins@gentoo.org]
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 9:40 AM
To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Problems with initial gentoo rc5 binary
inst all - GRUB


On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 07:43:26AM -0500, Greer, Darren (MED) wrote:
> Well, that explains it.  Thanks for the info.  
> 
> Unfortunately, GE has /very/ strict rules, and there will be no way I
> can get 22 open.  I don't suppose there is a feature request area
where
> I can suggest the option of grabbing these things on port 80 :P ?

I'm now generating daily Portage tree snapshots that can be found at:
http://cvs.gentoo.org/snapshots.  You should be able to get around the
problem by downloading a snapshot and tar xjvf'ing it in /usr.

Best Regards,

-- 
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RE: [gentoo-dev] Re: Problems with initial gentoo rc5 binary inst all - GRUB

[Greer, Darren (MED)]

Well, that explains it.  Thanks for the info.  

Unfortunately, GE has /very/ strict rules, and there will be no way I
can get 22 open.  I don't suppose there is a feature request area where
I can suggest the option of grabbing these things on port 80 :P ?

Otherwise, I guess I live with the CD for now.

Thanks,

Darren

-----Original Message-----
From: Jerry A! [mailto:jerry@thehutt.org]
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 5:46 PM
To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Problems with initial gentoo rc5 binary
inst all - GRUB


On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 04:48:35PM -0500, Greer, Darren (MED) wrote:
: Yah, this rsync issue seems like it may be a pain.  With Debian I
could
: easily apt-get update using the proxy.  However, when I set the proxy
in
: make.globals or using the env rsync_proxy it still does not work.  If
I
: strace it I get:
: 
: Here is proof that I can get out via port 80 from the shell
: #######################
: flash /root > export http_proxy=http://3.231.200.25:80
: flash /root > export rsync_proxy=3.231.200.25:80
: flash /root > export http_proxy=3.231.200.25
: flash /root > wget http://gentoo.org

I think I see some of your problems.  First, RSYNC_PROXY (and since it's
in the environment it's all caps) only specifies a rsync server to proxy
with.  However, rsync_proxy connections only work on port 873.

Otherwise, rsync will use rsh/ssh to grab it's data.  Now both of those
work on port 22.

It just dawned on me that in a previous e-mail you mentioned that you
only had ports 21 and 80 open.  Well, there's your problem--you only
have ftp and http open on your firewall.  You'll need to either open up
port 22 (ssh/rsh) or put in some stateful rules to keep an outgoing
connection open.

Hope this helps...

        --Jerry

name:  Jerry Alexandratos         ||  Open-Source software isn't a
phone: 703.599.6023               ||  matter of life or death...
email: jerry@thehutt.org          ||  ...It's much more important
                                  ||  than that!

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Problems with initial gentoo rc5 binary inst all - GRUB

[Daniel Robbins]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 07:43:26AM -0500, Greer, Darren (MED) wrote:
> Well, that explains it.  Thanks for the info.  
> 
> Unfortunately, GE has /very/ strict rules, and there will be no way I
> can get 22 open.  I don't suppose there is a feature request area where
> I can suggest the option of grabbing these things on port 80 :P ?

I'm now generating daily Portage tree snapshots that can be found at:
http://cvs.gentoo.org/snapshots.  You should be able to get around the
problem by downloading a snapshot and tar xjvf'ing it in /usr.

Best Regards,

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
President/CEO					http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.			

RE: [gentoo-dev] Re: Problems with initial gentoo rc5 binary inst all - GRUB

[Greer, Darren (MED)]

Yah, this rsync issue seems like it may be a pain.  With Debian I could
easily apt-get update using the proxy.  However, when I set the proxy in
make.globals or using the env rsync_proxy it still does not work.  If I
strace it I get:

Here is proof that I can get out via port 80 from the shell
#######################
flash /root > export http_proxy=http://3.231.200.25:80
flash /root > export rsync_proxy=3.231.200.25:80
flash /root > export http_proxy=3.231.200.25
flash /root > wget http://gentoo.org
--16:52:23--  http://gentoo.org/
           => `index.html'
Connecting to 3.231.200.25:80... connected!
Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 7,428 [text/html]

    0K .......                                               100%   0:00
42.7K

16:52:24 (41.69 KB/s) - `index.html' saved [7428/7428]
#######################

Here is the tail end of the strace where it hangs:

#######################

.
.
.
.
.
.
write(1, ">>> starting rsync with cvs.gent"..., 42>>> starting rsync
with cvs.gentoo.org...
) = 42
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_IGN}, {0x80fdc64, [], 0x4000000}, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGQUIT, {SIG_IGN}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [32], 8) = 0
fork()                                  = 9001
wait4(9001,
#######################
You can see the wait.

my dns cannot resolve cvs.gentoo.org

Here is what I added to /etc/hosts to combat that:
#######################
216.223.235.2   cvs.gentoo.org
#######################

So, providing the rsync actually goes out on 80, I should be ok.

Thanks for any help,

Darren

-----Original Message-----
From: Grant Goodyear [mailto:grant@Alta.chem.uh.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 4:39 PM
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Problems with initial gentoo rc5 binary inst
all - GRUB


>Gotcha.  I have the symlink setup, however, the only file I have in
>there make.defaults.  I think this make all stem back to the fact that
I
>cannot run emerge rsync.
>
>What do you think?

Oh, bother.  Yeah, not having been able to run "emerge rsync" 
would be a problem.  I'm sure there's a work-around, but the
best approach is going to be to fix your firewall difficulties.
Maintaining a Gentoo Linux system really requires being able to
update /usr/portage on demand.

I don't really have a good short-term solution for you, otherwise
We should probably have a weekly /usr/portage tarball at could
be downloaded, but we don't have that right now.  I think that Achim
(our lead package developer) was planning to set up an anonymous
CVS server, but I don't think that's ready just yet either.

-Grant-
-- 
___________________________________________________________________
|     Grant Goodyear                  |  The Secrets of Physics:   |
|     Dept. of Chemistry - UH         |1. Add zero.                |
|     Houston, TX  77204              |2. Multiply by one.         |
|-------------------------------------|3. Expand in a Taylor series|
|e-mail: goodyear@uh.edu              |4. Integrate by parts.      |
|www:bernacchi.chem.uh.edu/~grant     |5. Fourier transform.       |
|                                     |6. Add auxiliary variables  |
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Problems with initial gentoo rc5 binary inst all - GRUB

[Jerry A!]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 04:48:35PM -0500, Greer, Darren (MED) wrote:
: Yah, this rsync issue seems like it may be a pain.  With Debian I could
: easily apt-get update using the proxy.  However, when I set the proxy in
: make.globals or using the env rsync_proxy it still does not work.  If I
: strace it I get:
: 
: Here is proof that I can get out via port 80 from the shell
: #######################
: flash /root > export http_proxy=http://3.231.200.25:80
: flash /root > export rsync_proxy=3.231.200.25:80
: flash /root > export http_proxy=3.231.200.25
: flash /root > wget http://gentoo.org

I think I see some of your problems.  First, RSYNC_PROXY (and since it's
in the environment it's all caps) only specifies a rsync server to proxy
with.  However, rsync_proxy connections only work on port 873.

Otherwise, rsync will use rsh/ssh to grab it's data.  Now both of those
work on port 22.

It just dawned on me that in a previous e-mail you mentioned that you
only had ports 21 and 80 open.  Well, there's your problem--you only
have ftp and http open on your firewall.  You'll need to either open up
port 22 (ssh/rsh) or put in some stateful rules to keep an outgoing
connection open.

Hope this helps...

        --Jerry

name:  Jerry Alexandratos         ||  Open-Source software isn't a
phone: 703.599.6023               ||  matter of life or death...
email: jerry@thehutt.org          ||  ...It's much more important
                                  ||  than that!

[gentoo-dev] Re: Problems with initial gentoo rc5 binary inst all - GRUB

[Grant Goodyear]

>Gotcha.  I have the symlink setup, however, the only file I have in
>there make.defaults.  I think this make all stem back to the fact that I
>cannot run emerge rsync.
>
>What do you think?

Oh, bother.  Yeah, not having been able to run "emerge rsync" 
would be a problem.  I'm sure there's a work-around, but the
best approach is going to be to fix your firewall difficulties.
Maintaining a Gentoo Linux system really requires being able to
update /usr/portage on demand.

I don't really have a good short-term solution for you, otherwise
We should probably have a weekly /usr/portage tarball at could
be downloaded, but we don't have that right now.  I think that Achim
(our lead package developer) was planning to set up an anonymous
CVS server, but I don't think that's ready just yet either.

-Grant-
-- 
___________________________________________________________________
|     Grant Goodyear                  |  The Secrets of Physics:   |
|     Dept. of Chemistry - UH         |1. Add zero.                |
|     Houston, TX  77204              |2. Multiply by one.         |
|-------------------------------------|3. Expand in a Taylor series|
|e-mail: goodyear@uh.edu              |4. Integrate by parts.      |
|www:bernacchi.chem.uh.edu/~grant     |5. Fourier transform.       |
|                                     |6. Add auxiliary variables  |
|_____________________________________|____________________________|
 

RE: [gentoo-dev] Re: Problems with initial gentoo rc5 binary inst all - GRUB

[Greer, Darren (MED)]

Gotcha.  I have the symlink setup, however, the only file I have in
there make.defaults.  I think this make all stem back to the fact that I
cannot run emerge rsync.

What do you think?

-----Original Message-----
From: Grant Goodyear [mailto:grant@Alta.chem.uh.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 3:46 PM
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Problems with initial gentoo rc5 binary inst
all - GRUB


>Ok...here is my output.  I suspect it may be because of the virtuals
>error.  I will continue investigating.
>
>##########################
>flash /root >
>flash /root > export PKGDIR=/mnt/cdrom/gentoo/packages
>flash /root > emerge /mnt/cdrom/gentoo/packages/All/gnome-1.4-r1.tbz2
>>>> /etc/make.profile/virtuals does not exist.  Continuing anyway...
>Calculating dependencies.
>!!! Error: couldn't find match for >=gnome-base/gnome-applets-1.4.0.1
>
>flash /root >

You should have /etc/make.profile be a symbolic link to
/usr/portage/profiles/default.  That should take care of the 
/etc/make.profile/virtuals error.

Also, you need to do 
  emerge --usepkg /mnt/cdrom/gentoo/packages/All/gnome-1.4-r1.tbz2
so that emerge knows to get dependencies from the binaries in PKGDIR.

I hope that helps,
Grant
-- 
___________________________________________________________________
|     Grant Goodyear                  |  The Secrets of Physics:   |
|     Dept. of Chemistry - UH         |1. Add zero.                |
|     Houston, TX  77204              |2. Multiply by one.         |
|-------------------------------------|3. Expand in a Taylor series|
|e-mail: goodyear@uh.edu              |4. Integrate by parts.      |
|www:bernacchi.chem.uh.edu/~grant     |5. Fourier transform.       |
|                                     |6. Add auxiliary variables  |
|_____________________________________|____________________________|
 

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[gentoo-dev] Re: Problems with initial gentoo rc5 binary inst all - GRUB

[Grant Goodyear]

>Ok...here is my output.  I suspect it may be because of the virtuals
>error.  I will continue investigating.
>
>##########################
>flash /root >
>flash /root > export PKGDIR=/mnt/cdrom/gentoo/packages
>flash /root > emerge /mnt/cdrom/gentoo/packages/All/gnome-1.4-r1.tbz2
>>>> /etc/make.profile/virtuals does not exist.  Continuing anyway...
>Calculating dependencies.
>!!! Error: couldn't find match for >=gnome-base/gnome-applets-1.4.0.1
>
>flash /root >

You should have /etc/make.profile be a symbolic link to
/usr/portage/profiles/default.  That should take care of the 
/etc/make.profile/virtuals error.

Also, you need to do 
  emerge --usepkg /mnt/cdrom/gentoo/packages/All/gnome-1.4-r1.tbz2
so that emerge knows to get dependencies from the binaries in PKGDIR.

I hope that helps,
Grant
-- 
___________________________________________________________________
|     Grant Goodyear                  |  The Secrets of Physics:   |
|     Dept. of Chemistry - UH         |1. Add zero.                |
|     Houston, TX  77204              |2. Multiply by one.         |
|-------------------------------------|3. Expand in a Taylor series|
|e-mail: goodyear@uh.edu              |4. Integrate by parts.      |
|www:bernacchi.chem.uh.edu/~grant     |5. Fourier transform.       |
|                                     |6. Add auxiliary variables  |
|_____________________________________|____________________________|
 

RE: [gentoo-dev] Re: Problems with initial gentoo rc5 binary inst all - GRUB

[Greer, Darren (MED)]

Ok...here is my output.  I suspect it may be because of the virtuals
error.  I will continue investigating.

##########################
flash /root >
flash /root > export PKGDIR=/mnt/cdrom/gentoo/packages
flash /root > emerge /mnt/cdrom/gentoo/packages/All/gnome-1.4-r1.tbz2
>>> /etc/make.profile/virtuals does not exist.  Continuing anyway...
Calculating dependencies.
!!! Error: couldn't find match for >=gnome-base/gnome-applets-1.4.0.1

flash /root >
##########################

Thanks,

Darren

-----Original Message-----
From: Grant Goodyear [mailto:grant@Alta.chem.uh.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 2:28 PM
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Problems with initial gentoo rc5 binary inst
all - GRUB


Yes, emerge should handle dependencies.  Did you do
  export PKGDIR=/mnt/cdrom/gentoo/packages
to make sure that Portage knows where to find the binary
dependencies?

As for all of the grub problems, I'm not sure.  I make it a point
of running through the install directions and the Desktop guide
every time I reinstall Gentoo, just to make sure that things are
still working, and I've had no problems with grub.  I may have
missed something, however.  You might want to look at the
grub tutorial at
http://www-105.ibm.com/developerworks/education.nsf/linux-onlinecourse-b
ytitle/0F1731DC664023B7862569D0005C44AF?OpenDocument.
It's very good.

Best,
Grant
-- 
___________________________________________________________________
|     Grant Goodyear                  |  The Secrets of Physics:   |
|     Dept. of Chemistry - UH         |1. Add zero.                |
|     Houston, TX  77204              |2. Multiply by one.         |
|-------------------------------------|3. Expand in a Taylor series|
|e-mail: goodyear@uh.edu              |4. Integrate by parts.      |
|www:bernacchi.chem.uh.edu/~grant     |5. Fourier transform.       |
|                                     |6. Add auxiliary variables  |
|_____________________________________|____________________________|
 

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[gentoo-dev] Re: Problems with initial gentoo rc5 binary inst all - GRUB

[Grant Goodyear]

Yes, emerge should handle dependencies.  Did you do
  export PKGDIR=/mnt/cdrom/gentoo/packages
to make sure that Portage knows where to find the binary
dependencies?

As for all of the grub problems, I'm not sure.  I make it a point
of running through the install directions and the Desktop guide
every time I reinstall Gentoo, just to make sure that things are
still working, and I've had no problems with grub.  I may have
missed something, however.  You might want to look at the
grub tutorial at
http://www-105.ibm.com/developerworks/education.nsf/linux-onlinecourse-bytitle/0F1731DC664023B7862569D0005C44AF?OpenDocument.
It's very good.

Best,
Grant
-- 
___________________________________________________________________
|     Grant Goodyear                  |  The Secrets of Physics:   |
|     Dept. of Chemistry - UH         |1. Add zero.                |
|     Houston, TX  77204              |2. Multiply by one.         |
|-------------------------------------|3. Expand in a Taylor series|
|e-mail: goodyear@uh.edu              |4. Integrate by parts.      |
|www:bernacchi.chem.uh.edu/~grant     |5. Fourier transform.       |
|                                     |6. Add auxiliary variables  |
|_____________________________________|____________________________|
 

RE: [gentoo-dev] Re: Problems with initial gentoo rc5 binary inst all - GRUB

[Greer, Darren (MED)]

You are correct, the packages do install.  I was just curious is using
emerge was supposed to automagically handle the dependencies?

Thanks,

Darren

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Robbins [mailto:drobbins@gentoo.org]
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 1:23 PM
To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Problems with initial gentoo rc5 binary
inst all - GRUB


On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 01:14:43PM -0500, Greer, Darren (MED) wrote:
> k...I will give that a shot.  As an aside, can someone verify that
> cvs.gentoo.org is indeed:
> 	216.223.235.2

yes.

> All the packages on the CD are in one dir "All".  Is that error
refering

Package install should go fine even with packages in the "All" dir.

-- 
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RE: [gentoo-dev] Re: Problems with initial gentoo rc5 binary inst all - GRUB

[Greer, Darren (MED)]

k...I will give that a shot.  As an aside, can someone verify that
cvs.gentoo.org is indeed:
	216.223.235.2

Also, Since I have been unable to get the package information
downloaded, I am using the burned CD to install apps.  However, whenever
I emerge them, it automatically assumes that the individual packages are
located in their specific directories (say I try to install gnome-1.4 it
will error because it cannot find: gnome-base/gnome-applets.

All the packages on the CD are in one dir "All".  Is that error refering
that it cannot find the package, or that it cannot find the app?

Thanks,

Darren

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Robbins [mailto:drobbins@gentoo.org]
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 12:56 PM
To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Problems with initial gentoo rc5 binary
inst all - GRUB


On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 12:38:12PM -0500, Greer, Darren (MED) wrote:
> The symlink was something I tried "once".  I installed twice, and I
> /did/ have a /mnt/gentoo/boot/boot/grub directory, and both times grub
> would not install.  With the same error each time.  
> 
> The fact that the error was trying /boot/grub/stage1 and not
> /boot/boot/grub/stage1 was the only reason I tried the symlink.  
> 
> Everything you state, is what I did, with /mnt/gentoo/boot being the
> mount, etc.  So,  am not sure why grub did not like it.

OK, gotcha.

The next thing to verify is that you use the "-o notail" option to mount
your ReiserFS boot partition.  If you didn't, then GRUB won't be able to
read those files and will produce the errors you described.

Quick fix: mount your boot partition with notail, copy the files to
another
partition, zap the original files, and then copy them back.  When they
are
recreated, their tails won't be packed.  Tail packing is a Reiserfs
thing
that messes up most boot loaders.

Best Regards,

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
President/CEO					http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.			

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Problems with initial gentoo rc5 binary inst all - GRUB

[Daniel Robbins]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 01:14:43PM -0500, Greer, Darren (MED) wrote:
> k...I will give that a shot.  As an aside, can someone verify that
> cvs.gentoo.org is indeed:
> 	216.223.235.2

yes.

> All the packages on the CD are in one dir "All".  Is that error refering

Package install should go fine even with packages in the "All" dir.

-- 
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President/CEO					http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.			

RE: [gentoo-dev] Re: Problems with initial gentoo rc5 binary inst all - GRUB

[Greer, Darren (MED)]

Thanks for the update.

btw...This is a "development" mailing list, there was no "user
discussion" mailing list.  Is it OK if I continue to post these
questions here?

Thanks,

Darren

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Robbins [mailto:drobbins@gentoo.org]
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 12:33 PM
To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Problems with initial gentoo rc5 binary
inst all - GRUB


On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 11:01:34AM -0500, Greer, Darren (MED) wrote:
> Well, I gave up trying to figure out why this was not working, and
have
> just installed lilo.  Rebooted and all seems to be well.  
> 
> However, I have a question.  When I do a "df" I see an entry for:
> 	/dev	/dev-state
> I have no entry like this in /etc/fstab.  What would this be?

This is a special "bind" mount used to move the contents to /dev to
/dev-state
before we mount devfs at /dev.

Best Regards,

-- 
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President/CEO					http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.			

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Problems with initial gentoo rc5 binary inst all - GRUB

[Daniel Robbins]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 12:39:16PM -0500, Greer, Darren (MED) wrote:
> Thanks for the update.
> 
> btw...This is a "development" mailing list, there was no "user
> discussion" mailing list.  Is it OK if I continue to post these
> questions here?

Yes; we won't have a "user discussion" list until 1.0 is released. 

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Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
President/CEO					http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.			

RE: [gentoo-dev] Re: Problems with initial gentoo rc5 binary inst all - GRUB

[Greer, Darren (MED)]

Well, I gave up trying to figure out why this was not working, and have
just installed lilo.  Rebooted and all seems to be well.  

However, I have a question.  When I do a "df" I see an entry for:
	/dev	/dev-state
I have no entry like this in /etc/fstab.  What would this be?

Thanks,

Darren

p.s.Looking forward to start playing with gentoo now.  I am coming from
Debian so we shall see how it goes.

Darren

-----Original Message-----
From: Greer, Darren (MED) 
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 10:00 AM
To: 'gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org'
Subject: RE: [gentoo-dev] Re: Problems with initial gentoo rc5 binary
inst all - GRUB


Ok, thinking I must have screwed something up...I re-did the entire
install, making sure I did it exactly as documented, and I get the same
exact error:

grub> root (hd0,0)
 Filesystem type is reiserfs, partition type 0x83

grub> setup (hd0)
 Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no
 Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... no

Error 15: File not found



It seems as though grub is located in /boot/boot/grub.  So I created a
symlink to /boot/grub, and am having the same issues.  Can someone
enlighten me as too what I am doing wrong?

My partitions are setup as follows:
	/dev/hda1 = /boot	reiserfs
	/dev/hda2 = /		reiserfs
	/dev/hda3 = /opt		ext2
	/dev/hda4 = swap

Thanks,

Darren

-----Original Message-----
From: Grant Goodyear [mailto:grant@Alta.chem.uh.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 12:39 AM
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Problems with initial gentoo rc5 binary
install - GRUB


Is it possible that you didn't have /boot mounted when you did
the "emerge --usepkg system" step?  That's the step that 
should have copied all of the important files to /boot/boot/*.

Good luck!
-Grant-
-- 
___________________________________________________________________
|     Grant Goodyear                  |  The Secrets of Physics:   |
|     Dept. of Chemistry - UH         |1. Add zero.                |
|     Houston, TX  77204              |2. Multiply by one.         |
|-------------------------------------|3. Expand in a Taylor series|
|e-mail: goodyear@uh.edu              |4. Integrate by parts.      |
|www:bernacchi.chem.uh.edu/~grant     |5. Fourier transform.       |
|                                     |6. Add auxiliary variables  |
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Problems with initial gentoo rc5 binary inst all - GRUB

[Daniel Robbins]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 11:01:34AM -0500, Greer, Darren (MED) wrote:
> Well, I gave up trying to figure out why this was not working, and have
> just installed lilo.  Rebooted and all seems to be well.  
> 
> However, I have a question.  When I do a "df" I see an entry for:
> 	/dev	/dev-state
> I have no entry like this in /etc/fstab.  What would this be?

This is a special "bind" mount used to move the contents to /dev to /dev-state
before we mount devfs at /dev.

Best Regards,

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
President/CEO					http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.			

RE: [gentoo-dev] Re: Problems with initial gentoo rc5 binary inst all - GRUB

[Greer, Darren (MED)]

Ok, thinking I must have screwed something up...I re-did the entire
install, making sure I did it exactly as documented, and I get the same
exact error:

grub> root (hd0,0)
 Filesystem type is reiserfs, partition type 0x83

grub> setup (hd0)
 Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no
 Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... no

Error 15: File not found



It seems as though grub is located in /boot/boot/grub.  So I created a
symlink to /boot/grub, and am having the same issues.  Can someone
enlighten me as too what I am doing wrong?

My partitions are setup as follows:
	/dev/hda1 = /boot	reiserfs
	/dev/hda2 = /		reiserfs
	/dev/hda3 = /opt		ext2
	/dev/hda4 = swap

Thanks,

Darren

-----Original Message-----
From: Grant Goodyear [mailto:grant@Alta.chem.uh.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 12:39 AM
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Problems with initial gentoo rc5 binary
install - GRUB


Is it possible that you didn't have /boot mounted when you did
the "emerge --usepkg system" step?  That's the step that 
should have copied all of the important files to /boot/boot/*.

Good luck!
-Grant-
-- 
___________________________________________________________________
|     Grant Goodyear                  |  The Secrets of Physics:   |
|     Dept. of Chemistry - UH         |1. Add zero.                |
|     Houston, TX  77204              |2. Multiply by one.         |
|-------------------------------------|3. Expand in a Taylor series|
|e-mail: goodyear@uh.edu              |4. Integrate by parts.      |
|www:bernacchi.chem.uh.edu/~grant     |5. Fourier transform.       |
|                                     |6. Add auxiliary variables  |
|_____________________________________|____________________________|
 

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Problems with initial gentoo rc5 binary inst all - GRUB

[Daniel Robbins]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 09:59:32AM -0500, Greer, Darren (MED) wrote:
> Ok, thinking I must have screwed something up...I re-did the entire
> install, making sure I did it exactly as documented, and I get the same
> exact error:
> 
> grub> root (hd0,0)
>  Filesystem type is reiserfs, partition type 0x83
> 
> grub> setup (hd0)
>  Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no
>  Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... no
> 
> Error 15: File not found

When you installed Gentoo Linux, your boot partition should have been mounted
at /mnt/gentoo/boot.  I don't know what you're talking about with this symlink
hack that you keep mentioning; all I can say it that any "fixes" of this sort
are not required.  Once Gentoo Linux is installed from the install CD, you
should have a /mnt/gentoo/boot/boot/grub directory.  Please note that
"boot/boot" *is* correct and shouldn't be changed at all.  As long as you had
your reiserfs boot partition mounted at /mnt/gentoo/boot, all should be well.

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
President/CEO					http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.			

RE: [gentoo-dev] Re: Problems with initial gentoo rc5 binary inst all - GRUB

[Greer, Darren (MED)]

All the files that seem to need to be in /boot/boot are there.  I even
did the custom kernel compile, and copied my new kernel in there.

Thanks,

Darren

-----Original Message-----
From: Grant Goodyear [mailto:grant@Alta.chem.uh.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 12:39 AM
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Problems with initial gentoo rc5 binary
install - GRUB


Is it possible that you didn't have /boot mounted when you did
the "emerge --usepkg system" step?  That's the step that 
should have copied all of the important files to /boot/boot/*.

Good luck!
-Grant-
-- 
___________________________________________________________________
|     Grant Goodyear                  |  The Secrets of Physics:   |
|     Dept. of Chemistry - UH         |1. Add zero.                |
|     Houston, TX  77204              |2. Multiply by one.         |
|-------------------------------------|3. Expand in a Taylor series|
|e-mail: goodyear@uh.edu              |4. Integrate by parts.      |
|www:bernacchi.chem.uh.edu/~grant     |5. Fourier transform.       |
|                                     |6. Add auxiliary variables  |
|_____________________________________|____________________________|
 

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