Re: [gentoo-dev] documentation-problem

[mbutcher <mbutcher@aleph-null.tv>]

Comments inline.

On Thursday 13 June 2002 02:15 am, Stephan Wentz wrote:
> hi folks!
>
> yesterday is started installing gentoo on my laptop from scratch -
> everything worked fine, and the documentation is EXCELLENT! great job ;-)
> he found all modules, all pcmcia-network-cards (normal ethernet and a
> wlan-card).
> but i found 2 things that didn't work out with my installation:
>
> 1) 14.Final steps: kernel and system logger
>
> after i succeded with the installation and booted the first time, i got
> this error-msg:
>
> "mount_devfs_fs(): unable to mount devfs, err: -2
>
> looked through the forums and found the solution:
> in the kernel-config i checked "/dev filesystem support", but i ALSO
> checked "Mount on boot", after i unchecked it, the mount_devfs_fs-error
> disappeared. maybe you should put this in the red warning-section?

That's interesting... I built one yesterday, and checked "Mount on boot" and 
it worked fine. I was building 2.4.19-gentoo-r7. I wonder what the deal is... 
it sounds logical to check that item, doesn't it?

>
> 2) Final network configuration
>
> where it says
> "If you have a PCMCIA card installed, have a quick look into
> /etc/init.d/pcmcia to verify that things seem all right for your setup"
>
> the problem is: there is no file /etc/init.d/pcmcia!
> did i miss something? i followed the instructions step-by-step, don't think
> i forgot something... or do i have to create that file by myself?
>

True. There _used_ to be a pcmcia file there... but I think that was pre-1.0. 
Perhaps that section should be tagged as only applying to older releases.

> 3) Final steps: configure GRUB
>
> in code listing 40 the line splashimage points to
> (hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
>
> and above you state that in your example hda1 is the boot-partition.
> shouldn't it mean (hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz then? without /boot ?
> and what about the kernel-line? there's the same thing... or does it mount
> /dev/hda3 (like state with the root-parameter in the kernel-line) as the
> root-device? then it would be ok...

Note the symbolic link in /boot:
 # cd /boot
 # ls -l boot
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            1 Dec 30 21:57 boot -> ./



>
> now, while booting i get this error:
> "Warning: unable to open an initial console.
> Kernel panic: No init found. Tyr passing init= option in kernel."
>
> i think this is because of a wrong grub-configuration... maybe you can help
> me out? i have my root partition on hda4, and the boot-partition on hda3...
> how would grubs menu.lst look like? is the following right, if not, where
> is the error? (note: i'm using the nt-bootloader right now, because of that
> i installed grub into the boot-partition, not in the mbr...)

Yes -- the problem is in your menu.lst.

You said the BOOT partition was on /dev/hda3 and the ROOT partition was on 
/dev/hda4, right? Well, init (and /etc and all those other necessary boot 
files) is on /dev/hda4. I corrected it in your example below:

>
> default 0
> timeout 30
> splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
>
> title=My example Gentoo Linux
> root (hd0,2)
# NOTE: /dev/hda4, not hda3
> kernel /bzImage root=/dev/hda4
>
> maybe you can help me out... i'm very interested in gentoo - so i'd like to
> start it ;-)
>
> another question according to grub: like i said, i installed it into my
> boot-partiton, what if i want to remove it from there and put it in the
> mbr? just install it in the mbr? how to remove the version from the
> partition? or is this done automatically?

AFAIK, when you install grub, it puts its bootloader into the MBR. If you 
managed to get it to do something else, you know more about grub than I. ;-)

>
> so, enough for now... hope my remarks can help you make gentoo even better
> ;-)
>
> stephan
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Matt