Re: [gentoo-dev] Install not working

[Bill Anderson <bill@noreboots.com>]

Achim Gottinger wrote:

> Bill Anderson wrote:
> 
> 
>> OK, I finally got room to install gentoo.
>> 
>> I did make one thing different than in the install guide; I used a
>> single partition.
>> 
>> Problem: it won't boot fully.
>> It reaches the end of the scripts in runlevel 3 and just stops.
> 
> 
> Do all the services start with [OK] ?

Yup. At least, nobody complains with an oops or anything.

 
 
>> Sometimes I get a message to hit enter to continue, but alas, nothing
>> occurs.
> 
> 
> Your system freezes? Hit enter and continue does not work?

Yup.

> 
> 
>> I can boot to single user mode, but nothing else. If I try to
>> then switch to runlevel 3 it fails as noted above.
>> 
> 
> 
> Can you send me a ls -l of /etc/rc.d/rc3.d and /etc/rc.d/init.d

Sure:
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           25 Jan 17 05:53 19sysklogd -> 
/etc/rc.d/init.d/sysklogd
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           24 Jan 17 05:53 50urandom -> 
/etc/rc.d/init.d/urandom
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           21 Jan 17 05:53 70inet -> 
/etc/rc.d/init.d/inet
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           23 Jan 17 05:53 72xinetd -> 
/etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           26 Jan 17 05:53 75rmnologin -> 
/etc/rc.d/init.d/rmnologin
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           22 Jan 17 05:53 80vcron -> 
/etc/rc.d/init.d/vcron

Bill Anderson