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 1MED25-0007yW-5S for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:55:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 734B1E038E; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:55:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38F92E038E for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:55:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D071D642B6 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:55:14 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.933 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.933 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.334, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] 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 8J7vExZWST1K for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:55:08 +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 47BED642E3 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:55:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MED1q-0002gJ-Bu for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:55:02 +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 01:55:02 +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 01:55:02 +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 20:52:26 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: References: <6034F200-E2E3-4454-B161-477708858571@wright.org> 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:ZKyoAYxt1vrZUiSP/PHXwDUQy7g= Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: fa2001a1-9c27-4ab9-bc85-0fcec183d4e9 X-Archives-Hash: ca27e95cbd516d01ee76873ec72af4a2 Roy Wright writes: [...] >> I really have no idea what to change when I boot off the install >> media. > > So you have grub installed, the grub menu appears, you select a boot > option, boot starts, the usual kernel messages flash by, you get to the > second part of the boot where the lines look like: > > blah... [OK] > > Then something goes crazy. Yes, just the first few `blah [ok]' lines... maybe 3. > Assuming that's the scenario, boot with your install media, enter the > chroot, then take a peek at the logs in /var/log. Hopefully you can > find > a hint. > In progress on you suggestion now. But no syslog is running in the chroot.(is it?) But still looking around. 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)