Archives for: May 2005, 04

05/04/05

Southpark Character


Do what others do

Maybe I should just use this as my hackergotchi, I'd scare people by using a "real" one ;-)
(PNG version now :-))

Permalink . Ikke . 08:35:12 am . 52 Words . Life . . 283 views . 4 comments
System doesn't boot

Installing the Gentoo Base System

Humm, so not everything in my previous post did work as good as I told you. First of all, emerge, ctrl+c, modify cflags,... did not work the first time. When I stopped the proces and added gcc in my packages.keywords, the bootstrap proces wanted to continu installing gcc-3.3.5, even while "emerge -pv gcc" told me gcc-3.4 should be installed. Ikke came for help and looked into the bootstrap-script, deleted a process-file so the whole bootstrap process restarted instead of recovering. Everything went fine then.

So, if you want to install gentoo with gcc-3.4, make sure gcc is in your package.keywords file before you run the bootstrap-script.

Progression from Stage2 to Stage3 went fine.

Configuring the Kernel

This part is fatal for now. When Ikke and I manually configured the kernel, he won't boot. In the liveCD-environment, my hard disk is /dev/sda, but when we put that in grub.conf, it doesn't work. My / partition isn't found while booting. When we use genkernel, the system tells me he found the Toshiba controller, but booting the kernel (genkernel or the other one) keeps resulting in a kernel panic pointing me at the fact /dev/sda2 or /dev/hda2 doesn't exist. Seems there are some problems with the combination of IDE and SATA support. Disabling IDE support in the kernel didn't help. Searching google and forums.gentoo.org also didn't result in a solution. Ikke can't accept he can't install gentoo on my machine, so this night he'll look up everything he can find about my type of machine and running linux on it. Let's hope he finds some solution. If you know anything to help me further, please be my guest.

Permalink . Peter . 02:12:17 . 297 Words . My Gentoo . Email . No views