From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QM0G3-0008Bn-7E for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 16 May 2011 16:03:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A21DF1C02A; Mon, 16 May 2011 16:00:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pop-altamira.atl.sa.earthlink.net (pop-altamira.atl.sa.earthlink.net [207.69.195.62]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 786BB1C02A for ; Mon, 16 May 2011 16:00:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from user-12hck1e.cable.mindspring.com ([69.22.80.46] helo=[192.168.0.51]) by pop-altamira.atl.sa.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 1QM0Dv-0000BR-00 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 16 May 2011 12:00:47 -0400 Message-ID: <4DD14A34.9090607@earthlink.net> Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 12:00:52 -0400 From: Felix Miata Organization: less than infinite User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; Warp 4.5; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20110513 SeaMonkey/2.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!) References: <20110516152632.GA11074@gaurahari> In-Reply-To: <20110516152632.GA11074@gaurahari> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: cfda0708da64d60ca063441419b0b2b9 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? -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/