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 1MED30-00084M-9r for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:56:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C90B9E03AB; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:56:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qy0-f196.google.com (mail-qy0-f196.google.com [209.85.221.196]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB277E03AB for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:56:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk34 with SMTP id 34so684734qyk.32 for ; Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:56:05 -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=Nlo9GOd6tTP9mIjkbmTt+fifzdxb0SlTqdrsJ/AVo8g=; b=v/3a5+QCQ0DxgQRN81zaiyn7xunqsYSDUlR4Ne5Zqh5u+AGjHNwyR3NAJcXbCJzhwy 5ADXmkdDS6G5UjMrh48aWvu1k+2MhNPo3fF+14U0Rotk0trfKOrKHnBlb0BvNwedREGq TGdfVu2JgXh2F6PCqtuVuu9BchyArp5Ajjuo4= 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=kpk17vvs+crzm3GTlcCNkBFm2BpQ9tOX5xsJ5f+8p+nuOsyUtF+gCmuFjkHYgEnKKX 0C45LwnAKBRry0UwwdeGzsEc2Djft5JpqGKE4Wt720sMAftikmpHgkv9oVl76fnhpjm1 fFXX2cY2rbRnIYbKvbEDdEYGZIqTTk2o17ePI= 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 10.151.125.5 with SMTP id c5mr1615137ybn.171.1244598965086; Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:56:05 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <5bdc1c8b0906091805g3bbe99c9icb5335699334ef4c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 18:56:05 -0700 Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0906091856uabee910vd16a8a9e6f43f1f9@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 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: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 0746319d-84a3-4cb3-a0f6-5cf24320c08e X-Archives-Hash: a79ae8b6ac5b00f4b4e9b41fca331ccc On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Mark Knecht writes: > >>> 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? > > Yes, as advised in the quick install guide. =C2=A0And yes I am booting of= f > of a reiserfs and have been doing so for at least 2 yrs. =C2=A0I haven't > seen this problem in that time. I understand, and I'm not suggesting it was the problem. Just asking questi= ons. Keep in mind that I ran xorg-server with the Intel driver for 4 years and the recent xorg-server/driver updates totally broke it. I couldn't wait for a fix (wife's computer - we know who really runs this place...) so I bought a new cad and moved on. Is this the same old ReiserFS that you've been running? It's not the new fangled versions is it? It sounded like the time your boot goes crazy might be when everything is getting mounted? Is that about the right time? What do you think the last message is that's good? > >> 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. > > No serial port Yeah, I understand. I wonder what the kernel devs use these days for this issue? I know with my machine, which has a serial port, I was able to capture some stuff for Ingo Molnar that helped him out, but I couldn't do it today on 6 of the 7 machines in my house. Cheers, Mark