[Hudlug] Re: Dammed Gentoo!!
Rob Shakir
hudlug at mailman.lug.org.uk
Wed Nov 13 04:28:01 2002
Hi,
You can install the 1.2 (stable release) using this, please input the
bug that you experienced at http://bugs.gentoo.org
Thanks
Shak
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 15:56, Chris Lindley wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 12:40, Shak wrote:
> > Chris,
> >
> > Have you tried with the 1.2 boot CD? Also http://forum.gentoo.org has a decent search facility that can be used too :)
>
>
> Can;t find anything to help on the Gentoo forum, (ps it's forums!)
>
> But I can boot fine from the 1.2 boo disc.
>
> Now can I use this to install 1.4 (using everthing from scratch?)?
>
> Cheers
> Chris
>
> > Shak
> > ============================================================
> > From: Chris Lindley <chris.lindley@scotgate.org>
> > Date: 2002/11/12 Tue AM 11:06:06 GMT
> > To: list HUDLUG <hudlug@mailman.lug.org.uk>
> > Subject: [Hudlug] Re: Dammed Gentoo!!
> >
> > 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
> > > ICQ#157144010 AIM#fergycool jabber#fergy IRC#Ferg
> > > Climb up it, kayak down it + make sure it runs on GNU/Linux
> > --
> > 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
> >
> >
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> > (/)_ (\)_ V_/_ it boots up it is perfect" - Linus Torvalds
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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
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(o_ (o_ //\ "Testing? What's that? If it compiles, it is good if
(/)_ (\)_ V_/_ it boots up it is perfect" - Linus Torvalds