[gentoo-user] Re: boot error

[James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>]

Neil Bothwick <neil <at> digimed.co.uk> writes:


> I use Google to search it "search string site:archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user"

Very nice, never thought of using google to search a specific site....


> A stage 3 not only gives you the opportunity to build a kernel, it
> requires you to do so (unless you use the live CD kernel which defeats
> the object of using a customisable distro). Stage 3 only skips the
> bootstrap and emerge system steps that take so much time with a Stage 1
> install. I always do Stage 3 installs now, you can emerge -e system once
> the system is running to apply your USE and CFLAGS customisations.


OK, I went back to the handbook install process. I should have used a stage3
but I did not. Builing a kernel using menuconfig the Nvidia MCP51, which
was already preselected, I think that the issue of the a correct driver
is solved? Not really sure until I get the kernel to boot.

I used a stage 1 and got all the way to installing grub before
the install stalled.

Here's the grub error when (page 10 for amd64) I entered
'emerge grub'

rm: cannot remove '/var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-0.97-r3/image/bin':
Funciont not implemented

then it repeats for .../image/lib .../image/usr and so no.

Maybe one of the partions is not rw?  The other emerges along the
way ran fine.   I did issue a
'etc-update' just before 'emerge grub'. Maybe that caused
the problem for the chrooted environment?

Any ideas?
Should I just trash the install and start over?
This is frustrating because except for using a stage 1 tarball
and issuing a questionable 'etc-update' I verbosely followed
the handbook installation process.


James



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