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 1OP3ZL-0006NY-EN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 01:06:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 85900E0FF8 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 01:06:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8275CE09CA for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:44:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C2121B4172 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:44:35 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.928 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.928 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.329, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id FM76g8Isj-nz for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:44:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A10DF1B4041 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:44:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OP3DO-000384-Ri for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 02:44:18 +0200 Received: from adsl-69-234-184-203.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.184.203]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 02:44:18 +0200 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-184-203.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 02:44:18 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org connect(): No such file or directory From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Boot hangs after install, no error Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:48:40 -0700 Message-ID: References: <4C1958B9.4000903@gmail.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-184-203.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.3a6pre) Gecko/20100615 Thunderbird/3.2a1pre In-Reply-To: <4C1958B9.4000903@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 9e788e1b-898e-4e00-83e9-3210f6706149 X-Archives-Hash: bc2d32a1811dff28516a23e97826014f On 06/16/2010 04:05 PM, Jake Moe wrote: > I've just completed a fresh Gentoo installation on a new laptop, and > strangely, after I choose the entry from the Grub screen, all I get is: > > Booting `Gentoo Linux 2.6.32-r7` > > root (hd0,1) > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 > kernel /kernel-2.6.32-gentoo-r7 root=/dev/sda4 > [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x3000, size=0x1ab020] The only thing that looks a bit unusual is that your kernel-2.6.xxx appears to be in the root directory instead of in /boot where it usually lives. Is that something you intended to do? Did you install /boot on it's own separate partition? That's the way the gentoo install instructions were written years ago -- but I confess I never did it that way and I've not done a new install recently, so I've lost track.