[gentoo-dev] Re: Install Problem

[gentoo-dev] Re: Install Problem

[kirill j.]

"The problems begin when I reboot.
The first problem I encounter is grub.
Apparently grub cannot find menu.lst (maybe I misread your instruction on
where to create it, but I don't think so)"

"I can't move or fix the menu.lst problem because I can't find it.  I guess
it is on the /mnt/gentoo/boot directory that has been umounted.
Can I remount this directory to change something in it.  If so, how do I do
that?"

In Gentoo, if you followed the instructions of creating new partitions you
should type '/bin/mount /boot' EACH TIME you either copy the kernel over to
/boot, or change/create menu.lst (should be located under
/boot/grub/menu.lst). I don't know about 1.4_rc1 -release, but at least in
any earlier gentoo release I tried out menu.lst wasn't ANYWHERE. That said,
you need to create it yourself as per Installation Guide.


"In the Nic listing that I have been able to find, I haven't found any cards
that resemble any of the cards that I have.
My current choices are and ADMTek AN983B which is integrated on the
motherboard (MSI MS-6378X-L) and an OvisLink 8139ATXC.  Either of them work
fine on the CD boot."

"I don't understand why I can get online just fine while booting from the
CD, but I can't get online when booting from the HD.
If I can use your default net drivers to get my dhcp up and running from a
CD boot, why can't I use those same drivers to get dhcp and the net up and
running from an HD boot?....or can I?
If so, how do I do it?"

The only explanation I have to this is that you did not configure support
for ANY of your network cards in "make menuconfig". Looking at your card
choices I would guess that "OvisLink 8139ATXC" needs the 8139too.o module
(RealTek RTL-8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter). Never heard about "ADMTek
AN983B". I'd suggest you to boot the LiveCD one-more-time and let it probe
for your cards. You can then check which modules it loaded with
'/sbin/lsmod'.

"If I am sending this email to the wrong place, I apologize."

Well this kind of message would suffice better for gentoo-user or
gentoo-newbies mailinglists.

"Any detailed help that you can give me on this will be greatly appreciated.
Any further directions as to what I should do or whom I should turn to for
help on this project would also be appreciated."


"My ultimate goal is to find a line package (distro) that I can install and
maintain on my customers (mostly workstations) computers."

If you get the thing to work with my help you may employ me ;)
--kirill

Re: [gentoo-dev] Install Problem

[Paul de Vrieze]

On Tuesday 01 October 2002 23:11, Wilson Brown wrote:
> The problems begin when I reboot.
> The first problem I encounter is grub.
> Apparently grub cannot find menu.lst (maybe I misread your instruction on
> where to create it, but I don't think so) Anyway, I followed your link to
> the grub tutorial which said that it included emergency procedures (which I
> didn't find) and found mostly instructions for installing grub on an
> existing system (which I don't need),  however I did find examples for
> manually booting to /boot/Image.bz2, and I booted line.

The manual booting is the emergency procedure.
What is important though is that you tell grub where it needs to find the 
menu.lst file.
Remember that  grub uses a boot partition in the gentoo setup. Look at the 
grub manual: man grub

>
> After booting  into line, none of the Code listings in "18.Gent-Stats"
> work. Apparently I can no longer get online to do an emerge or anything.
>
> In the Nic listing that I have been able to find, I haven't found any cards
> that resemble any of the cards that I have. My current choices are and
> ADMTek AN983B which is integrated on the motherboard (MSI MS-6378X-L) and
> an OvisLink 8139ATXC.  Either of them work fine on the CD boot.
>
> Under Code listing 28 under "14.Final steps: kernel and system logger,
> specifically "make menuconfig"; I am trying to follow your detailed
> instructions with great specificity (I'm trying to be very careful), but
> perhaps I am missing something or doing something wrong.
>
> I don't understand why I can get online just fine while booting from the
> CD, but I can't get online when booting from the HD. If I can use your
> default net drivers to get my dhcp up and running from a CD boot, why can't
> I use those same drivers to get dhcp and the net up and running from an HD
> boot?....or can I? If so, how do I do it?

Apparently you didn't include the right drivers for your network card. What 
you could do is boot from the cd, and then run:
dmesg |less
It should tell you somewhere that it recognised one/two network cards and that 
it is loading the drivers. That will tell you which drivers it are. If you 
loaded the drivers as modules, you just need to remember which modules it 
are. You can use lsmod to get a list of all currently loaded modules. Most 
linux drivers work with the particular chipset on the cards, not with the 
model number assigned by hardware vendors. You can also do a cat /proc/pci to 
get a list of all pci devices in your computer.

> I can't move or fix the menu.lst problem because I can't find it.  I guess
> it is on the /mnt/gentoo/boot directory that has been umounted. Can I
> remount this directory to change something in it.  If so, how do I do that?

mount /boot (as root, and not running from the cd)

Good luck,
ps. If you still cannot find the driver for your devices, include the output 
of cat /proc/pci in the mail.

-- 
Paul de Vrieze
Junior Researcher
Mail: pauldv@cs.kun.nl
Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Install Problem

[Thomas M. Beaudry]

> "I can't move or fix the menu.lst problem because I can't find it.  I guess
> it is on the /mnt/gentoo/boot directory that has been umounted.
> Can I remount this directory to change something in it.  If so, how do I do
> that?"

In the latest version of grub, menu.lst has been changed
to grub.conf.  Hope this helps you out.


-- 
Thomas M. Beaudry
k8la / ys1ztm