[Hudlug] Re: Dammed Gentoo!!

[Chris Lindley]

On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 10:58, Chris Lindley wrote:

Should have mentioned, that I realise why init is giving this message,
as the process it is trying to lauch is falling over immediately. 
However what process is it trying to launch, and is this a known problem
with Gentoo?

Cheers
Chris

> 
> Hmmm, this Gentoo thing is not as easy as _certain_ people have made
> out!!
> 
> 
> Initially discovered that my scsi card will not boot from a cd. 
> Hrumph!!!
> 
> It finds a bootable image on the cd, and then... just stays there!!
> 
> Anyway in comes an old IDE cdrom to pop in the machine.
> 
> OK livecd-basic-1.4_rc1-r2.iso then get s booted.
> 
> Everything seems fine, it recognises my scsi card.  However I see what
> looks like a kernel panic message whip past the screen. However it keeps
> on booting so I assume it's just some other error message.
> 
> However after symlinking the cd to the tempfs filesystem it switches to
> initlevel 3.  It sits here for a while, then I get "initlevel3
> respawning too fast, waiting 5 minutes".  This message appears 5 times,
> and then that's about it!!
> 
> Now am I doing something incredibly wrong?
> 
> Any help/advice would be appreciated!
> 
> I have though of installing from my current Debian setup, however I just
> do not have enough diskspace!!
> 
> Cheers
> Chris
> My system is fairly standard:-
> 
> cpu             duron 750 o/c to 1.0
> mobo            Abit kt7a
> heat sink       globalwin fop32-1
> scsi card       Tekram 390f
> Ram             256meg pc133 generic
>                 256meg Crucial cas-2 pc133
> Gfx             Matrox G400max DH
> 
> Scsi bus:-
> 0,0,0     0) 'IBM     ' 'DNES-309170W    ' 'SA30' Disk
> 0,1,0     1) 'SEAGATE ' 'ST15150N        ' '0023' Disk
> 0,2,0     2) 'TOSHIBA ' 'XM6201TASUN32XCD' '1103' Removable CD-ROM
> 0,3,0     3) 'YAMAHA  ' 'CRW4416S        ' '1.0f' Removable CD-ROM
> 0,4,0     4) 'IOMEGA  ' 'ZIP 100         ' 'J.03' Removable Disk
> 
> -- 
>   Chris Lindley                                  
>   chris.lindley@scotgate.org          chrishl@bmb.leeds.ac.uk
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-- 
  Chris Lindley                                  
  chris.lindley@scotgate.org          chrishl@bmb.leeds.ac.uk
  ICQ#157144010	    AIM#fergycool    jabber#fergy    IRC#Ferg
  Climb up it, kayak down it + make sure it runs on GNU/Linux