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 1MECFd-0001rb-Cs for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:05:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 319B6E023E; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:05:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f207.google.com (mail-gx0-f207.google.com [209.85.217.207]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14BB0E023E for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:05:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk3 with SMTP id 3so1741050gxk.10 for ; Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:05:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=H1zjaov0YpVACJtf0BvwIsVWt+4D8hsb5rX3oLUgQu8=; b=P6AZdJS6v4rkkiHRXe9SO9O/HwDuN0SAoBgkwXspGGbTcU+Hiiq9VOUenEwvO0zyWV +m4n0u9V7jwL3BMFWIS85zsq5XhT4Qf9BM4bV/81xoC46OpVFkajO0Ix/TPWu8AUPawZ iu/H9w90WxvNqoOvQj6YhLTlDkIIk9cYWcYYk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=l+AcxEundsBrTM7Kdwi8KI+N884f5aZLedWfio21EPg4WNNeVmbREQjdn+GUHmapQc SJjoAjRdJhnmB9sgU4v+c8pVa9K4x4asOgKDqZt5LV1tZ4BJ2aNd46q5SodBHLkyTrao RE7xB1C/kU1YVgQYb1UpAz/CuSMpIfN28Rk3w= 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 Received: by 10.151.9.17 with SMTP id m17mr1577964ybi.107.1244595910816; Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:05:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 18:05:10 -0700 Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0906091805g3bbe99c9icb5335699334ef4c@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e8242cad-f802-4ff1-86b9-90611c503d52 X-Archives-Hash: ad6a9e40aa3ab13ef22f387bfff24e12 On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > I've just completed first part of a fresh install. > > Mounted the new root and emerged a few things while still chrooted. > > It'd be difficult to list quickly since I can't boot it, but the > highlights are: > > eix > genkernel > gentoolkit > gentoolkit-dev > gentoo-sources > grub > lynx > ntp > reiserfsprogs > rsyslog > vim > vixie-cron > > And a number of dependancies pulled in from my use flags. > > I didn't want to start from scratch dinking around with kernel params > so elected to go the `genkernel all' route, hoping that with that much > junk being compiled... surely I'd get whatever I needed to start the > process of building up this installation. > > I realize there are many who have lots of rants against genkernel but > unless you think that is the core of the problem... please hold off on > advice to build my own kenel. > > kernel = 2.6.29-r5 > > What I see on reboot: > > Normal booting appears to be going along then moments after dev is > mounted followed by filesystems... a massive screen full of text > begins scrolling by and never stops. > > Impossible to read any of the text and neither pause/break or > scroll/lock keys have any effect. > > Appears to be a continuous wrapping line repeated. > > But it completely kills the boot process, and no further progress is > possible. > > I really have no idea what to change when I boot off the install media. You emerged reiserfsprogs before the machine was up and running. Does this somehow imply that you are trying to boot from a Reiser partition and could that be part of the problem? Does the machine have a serial port and do you have access to a second machine that you could capture and save the early boot messages? That might be helpful. I know many machine now don't support that. There may be ways to do something similar over the network or USB if the boot gets that far. - Mark