From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dt5hO-0000uD-QI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 15:32:31 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6EFVQc5020020; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 15:31:26 GMT Received: from highland.isltd.insignia.com (highland.isltd.insignia.com [195.74.141.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6EFRgXd026488 for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 15:27:43 GMT Received: from inchgower-e1.isltd.insignia.com (inchgower-e0.isltd.insignia.com [195.74.141.61]) by highland.isltd.insignia.com (8.12.6p3/8.12.6) with ESMTP id j6EFRnfm025426 for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:27:49 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from subscriber@insignia.com) Received: from dylan.internal.local (dylan [172.16.64.69]) by inchgower-e1.isltd.insignia.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with SMTP id j6EFRnBU009189 for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:27:49 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from subscriber@insignia.com) From: Jim Hatfield To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Interesting install experience Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:27:49 +0100 Organization: Insignia Solutions Message-ID: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 195.74.141.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j6EFRgXd026488 X-Archives-Salt: 87d71f6f-fa15-4b6b-bb70-1daa347984cf X-Archives-Hash: 1b7cf5f5c19baa483eff6465a410f3a8 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. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list