Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)

[Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net>]

On 2011/05/16 11:26 (GMT-0400) Indi composed:

> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 05:00:02AM +0200, Felix Miata wrote:

>>  On 2011/05/15 22:18 (GMT-0400) Felix Miata composed:

>>  >  I have two Gentoo stanzas in my primary bootloader, one to load the kernel,
>>  >  another to chainload Gentoo's Grub. Loading the kernel works, but chainload
>>  >  gives error 13 invalid executable format. I named the bzImage copied to /boot
>>  >  "kernel-2.6.37-r4f", and symlinked it a vmlinuz. vmlinuz is the name I use in
>>  >  the Grub stanzas. Is Gentoo's Grub expecting the kernel to have a particular
>>  >  name, and I picked a wrong one? Or maybe what it doesn't like is that I
>>  >  uncommented splashimage=(hd0,6)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz in menu.lst?

> I always just copy the bzImage to (for example)
> /boot/vmlinux-2.6.38-gentoo-r5, but the name doesn't really matter as
> long as it matches your bootloader entry.

I spent more time thinking about what happened, and decided the Grub message 
had to be coming from the master Grub trying to chainload the non-existent 
Gentoo Grub, and finding old data from a partition previously using that 
space, rather than something recognizable as boot code.

>>  Why setup didn't get this right via emerge I have no idea, unless it didn't
>>  actually do anything toward actually setting Grub up. If so, it could be
>>  there was already some mismatched Grub code there already from a previous use
>>  of the sectors there that didn't like the file format.

> The install docs are fairly clear that installing the grub pkg is only
> the first step of setting up the bootloader.

At that point I was seriously burned out on reading and rereading docs on 
install attempt #8 on my 5th day trying. I was so joyful seeing pretty colors 
and no error messages that I couldn't think logically. ;-)

> It seems to me (though I could certainly be wrong) that your best bet
> really is to perform a "vanilla install" first, as much as your hardware
> allows. Just to get to know the system before attempting to customize it.
> :)

Actually after the first or 2nd or some subsequent attempt that was my plan. 
After so much time passed (days, not just hours) and I had good kernel, NFS, 
and MC that I didn't see much point delaying KDE. After the errors 
disappeared around 10 last night and I reported same here I started to wonder 
where to go next on a tired brain. I set qt3support emerging around that 
time, and more than 3 hours later and time for bed its hundred & some 
packages were still emerging. I woke up hours later to goto the bathroom and 
found that done, so set kdm to install. That hundred plus set of packages is 
still emerging now, nearly 6 hours later. Maybe 32 bit 1667MHz & 512M RAM is 
on the skimpy side for installing Gentoo?
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