Re: [gentoo-user] Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text

[Roy Wright <roy@wright.org>]

On Jun 9, 2009, at 7:50 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:

> I've just completed first part of a fresh install.
> [snip]
> 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.

So you have grub installed, the grub menu appears, you select a boot
option, boot starts, the usual kernel messages flash by, you get to the
second part of the boot where the lines look like:

  blah...   [OK]

Then something goes crazy.

Assuming that's the scenario, boot with your install media, enter the
chroot, then take a peek at the logs in /var/log.  Hopefully you can  
find
a hint.

HTH,
Roy