On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Enlightened User <li...@nc.rr.com> wrote: > On Sep 24, 2010, at 4:30 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Joseph Jezak <jos...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>> >>> My responses are inline this time. It's easier when there's so much >>> going on! >>> >>> On 09/23/10 16:41, Mark Knecht wrote: >>>> >>>> Two pictures posted: >>>> >>>> Top half of boot screen: >>>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/29328...@n03/5018717650/ >>>> >>>> Bottom half of boot screen >>>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/29328...@n03/5018718202/ >>>> >>> >>> Okay, these look exactly as expected. You've booted into the shell fine >>> and the kernel does detect the hard drive fine. It appears that the disk >>> was not cleanly unmounted, which is what the messages in the bottom >>> picture indicate. Once you get USB working so we can type into the >>> console, we'll take a look at what's actually going on. >>> >>>> Full USB HID support is built as modular. I don't seem to be able to >>>> change it to built in. make menuconfig is only giving me modular or >>>> not set. (Kernel config USB info this is set is at the end) >>> >>> If you use menuconfig and you go to the "Help" option, it will tell you >>> what dependencies need to be set in order to build the module. Most >>> likely, you did not set the USB subsystem itself to be built in. >>>> >>>> lspci says the controller is an Apple controller and the driver is >>>> 'macio' which seems sensible. I see it in the boot screen I think. >>>> That driver is built in, but the PATA_MACIO driver is not: >>>> >>>> (chroot) livecd linux # cat .config | grep MACIO >>>> # CONFIG_PATA_MACIO is not set >>>> CONFIG_ADB_MACIO=y >>>> (chroot) livecd linux # >>>> >>>> Maybe I've mistakenly left the right disk driver out of the kernel >>>> thinking the hardware was SATA based? Does the PATA_MACIO option need >>>> to be set for the Mac Mini? I don't understand how this kernel config >>>> would have ever worked befor unless I'm confusing where it came from. >>>> >>> >>> You're using the old style driver which results in devices named hdX#. >>> It's called IDE_PMAC. The new driver which uses the sdX# naming >>> convention (and uses libpata), is called PATA_MACIO. >>> >>>> Does the append="init=/bin/bash" command allow the kernel to load >>>> drivers or do I need to build USBHID into the kernel to get the >>>> keyboard to work at this level of boot? >>> >>> I would built it in for now, it'll be easier since there's no good way >>> to get into the system to tell it to load the drivers. >>> >>> -Joe >>> >>> >> >> Hi Joe, >> OK - I got USB working and with the append="init=/bin/bash" in I >> can at least do cd and ls commands. >> >> All the devices you asked about exist - /dev/hda1 through 20, >> /dev/hdb1 through 20, /dev/null and /dev/zero - all exist. >> >> Doing know if it's a clue but in this append="init=/bin/bash" >> state I was unable to do a reboot or a shutdown as it complained about >> missing initctl I think? >> >> Being that I made a number of changes to the kernel config to get >> USB working I remove the append line from yaboot.conf and tried >> booting into Gentoo proper but it's still stopping at the same place >> with the same message about no mtab file. >> >> I'll put the append back in and wait for further ideas. >> >> Thanks for sticking with me! >> >> Cheers, >> Mark >> > Assuming you are still stopping near: > fsck.ext3... > > Can you confirm that /sbin/fsck.ext3 exists? > If not, then emerge e2fsprogs. > > Barry > >
The chroot is currently doing an emerge -e @world so I've shelled into the machine and am showing from that perspective. All the typical fsck programs are there and I rebuilt e2fsprogs a couple of days ago. livecd gentoo # ls /mnt/gentoo/sbin/fsck* fsck fsck.ext2 fsck.ext4 fsck.minix fsck.cramfs fsck.ext3 fsck.ext4dev livecd gentoo # When emerge -e @world completes I'll give it a reboot but somehow I don't have much faith that it will have fixed anything. Right now I feel it's either something missing from my kernel config, or some critical install step that I keep missing because of the way I read the document and maybe some step that listed inside a paragraph instead of being called out in purple like most of them are. (They are in there, like the locale-gen step and a few others...) I'll check back later when the rebuild is complete. Thanks! Cheers, Mark
