[gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> writes:

>> I really have no idea what to change when I boot off the install media.
>
> You emerged reiserfsprogs before the machine was up and running. Does
> this somehow imply that you are trying to boot from a Reiser partition
> and could that be part of the problem?

Yes, as advised in the quick install guide.  And yes I am booting off
of a reiserfs and have been doing so for at least 2 yrs.  I haven't
seen this problem in that time.

> Does the machine have a serial port and do you have access to a second
> machine that you could capture and save the early boot messages? That
> might be helpful. I know many machine now don't support that. There
> may be ways to do something similar over the network or USB if the
> boot gets that far.

No serial port