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 1MEE7x-00083L-Pq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:05:27 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 39AE9E03F3; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:05:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F18DDE03F3 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:05:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 919B46553D for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:05:23 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.431 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.431 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.832, 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 xHOS-CIttvCH for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:05:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A651564C84 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:05:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MEE7c-0004zK-HZ for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:05:04 +0000 Received: from c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.178.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:05:04 +0000 Received: from reader by c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:05:04 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Harry Putnam Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:04:59 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: References: <6034F200-E2E3-4454-B161-477708858571@wright.org> <5bdc1c8b0906091858v134b94bbkba32656c990c8f75@mail.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=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:YrBygXL/y905nrAQ8AR0KvcHGsk= Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: bb3a9a4e-4fcc-4be3-9de5-ba6f2200c370 X-Archives-Hash: 247fcacfc19b6ee797c4d5db37bb875e Mark Knecht writes: >> And just incase its something related to the newest kernel I've >> downgraded to 2.6.29-r2 and building from an old .config of 2.6.28. >> (not genkernel on this one) > > I think he was hoping that you would find something in your > chroot/var/log/messages file or something like that. boot from the CD, > mount the hard drive like you were doing an install, and then poke > around and see if anything got written and is still there. Just > hunting for clues. > > Do you have a digital camera? If so maybe it's fast enough to capture > the screen while it's scrolling and make the message semi-readable > even though they aren't to your eyes? Just reporting some kind of fix here. I downgraded to 2.6.29-r2 kernel from `r5' and built it from my old .config from a different system. (with a few changes in accord with the difference in the kernels [ 2.6.28 to 2.6.29-r2 ]. On reboot it just worked.... no endlessly scrolling text. So maybe its someting related to 2.6.29-r5 kernel or related to building that kernel with genkernel. At any rate, it seems a bit too opaque of a problem to continue trying to sort out, now that I got something working. Thanks for the tips posters.