From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GIp0Z-0006Ti-R9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:03:12 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7VFxRM4013850; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:59:27 GMT Received: from web35203.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web35203.mail.mud.yahoo.com [66.163.179.82]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7VFuOjE022930 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:56:25 GMT Received: (qmail 16559 invoked by uid 60001); 31 Aug 2006 15:56:24 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=cHpxUj3wgMn050XcyqDSnavtZF38mVOouIUxn/1tFSIKrFDapTymu1sjL8AiMWKBXvenJxc5+2letx3E1iLLJm57BiT+6+2aSlQY09ZeQ0uV+1YROVNQqsnjfoPyb4xFpVQCYcu3hCnSMms0MR4v/w7mEaF6gbJFwJRoIzyQLKQ= ; Message-ID: <20060831155624.16557.qmail@web35203.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [58.152.161.208] by web35203.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 23:56:24 CST Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 23:56:24 +0800 (CST) From: Stephen Liu Subject: [gentoo-user] Gentoo failed to start To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 259773f3-6f17-46bb-b4ae-23bfa712c03f X-Archives-Hash: c8f238185cc8fbf9776334397b3513de Hi folks, New installation - Gentoo amd64 Guide:- Gentoo Linux AMD64 Handbook http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml Kernel - linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r7 # fdisk -l /dev/hda1 * 83 System (for /boot) /dev/hda2 83 Linux (for /) /dev/hda3 82 swap /dev/hda4 8e Linux LVM (for /usr /home /var /opt /tmp) /vg/usr /vg/home /vg/var /vg/opt /vg/tmp Installation went through quite smoothly except following problems found:- 1) # USE="-doc symlink" emerge gentoo-sources ..... ...... * GNU info directory index is up-to-date. * IMPORTANT: 7 config files in /etc need updating. * Type emerge --help config to learn how to update config files. * end * # find /etc -iname '._cfg????_*' No printout. Can't find the config files to be updated. 2) # grep -v rootfs /proc/mounts > /etc/mtab - cursor hanging there # grub install /dev/hda df: Warning: cannot read table of mounted filesystems df: Warning: cannot read table of mounted filesystems Could not find device for /boot: Not found or not a block device. * end * 3) /boot/grub/grub.conf default 0 timeout 30 title=Gentoo linux 2.6.17.-r7 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r7 root=/dev/hda2 * end * Should I put (hd0,1) for my case? I followed the sample in the guide book. 4) # cat /etc/fstab # # NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts. /dev/BOOT /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2 /dev/ROOT / ext3 noatime 0 1 /dev/SWAP none swap sw 0 0 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0 #/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto 0 0 # NOTE: The next line is critical for boot! proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 * end * On reboot only a black screen displayed. Please advise how to fix the problem. TIA B.R. SL -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list