[gentoo-user] Interesting install experience

[Jim Hatfield <subscriber@insignia.com>]

The machine I posted about earlier (GRUB GRUB GRUB...) is dead.
It hung booting the 2005.0 CD, and if I booted a DriveImage CD
with a DOS partition, every key on the keyboard was echoed ^A.
Ah well.

So I just installed another machine, using the 2005.0 CD and using
the new instructions. It has a Matrox G400 so I added support for
that in the kernel. This may have been a mistake.

Everything is fine until I reboot, when after the GRUB screen and
kernel selection, the screen goes black with lots of pretty blue
squares all over it. Nice, but not helpful in logging in. And of 
course sshd isn't enabled by default. No matter, I reboot off the
CD, mount everything, do the chroot thing and add sshd to the default
runlevel, reboot and I can get in remotely.

I guess I will rebuild the kernel with Matrox support removed and
see if that fixes.

BTW, what is the received wistom wrt building things into the
kernel or building them as modules? As well as the G400 I have
an Intel NIC and a VIA sound card, and this time round chose to
build them in, though before I built them as modules. I'm not 
clear as to the pros and cons.



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