On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 03:10:02AM +0200, Felix Miata wrote: > Yesterday I attempted my first Gentoo install (11.0). Thanks to help here, I > got through my mirrorselect problem. First boot failed. I managed to miss > enabling VIA ATA support, so had no access to /. Second kernel build > suceeded, even to basic network working. First activity on first boot was > 'emerge mc'. That took too long to measure, pulling in 146 packages total, > and I had to goto an appointment before it finished (at package 109). > > Along the way to successful boot, I attempted two emerges suggested by the > handbook (one being Grub Legacy). Both produced "ERROR: ... (compile > phase)..." errors. Today I attempted NFS mounting only to find messages > indicating I had neither portmap nor rpcbind running, so tried 'emerge > portmap'. This produced similar (compile phase)... line 2140: Called die..." > error. So did 'emerge rpcbind'. The way I normally provide logs when asking > for help is put them on my file/web server via NFS, hence the chicken & egg > subject line. >
Maybe a stupid question, but have you tried run emerge --sync and emerge -vauND world yet since installing? > Another problem, highly annoying, is both vga= and video= cmdline parameters > are apparently being ignored. KMS seems married to the Trinitron's > PreferredMode (1600x1200), which produces mousetype on the ttys, and needs to > be fixed before I'll be able to accomplish much without pain trying to see > what I'm doing. My tty PreferredMode is 1152x864, which works with openSUSE > KMS kernels by setting video=1152x864 on cmdline. > > Any suggestions? Are such things in a FAQ somewhere? Do I need an older or > newer portage than Wednesday's? The Handbook stops at Finalizing, where these > questions aren't covered. Do you have your video card specified in make.conf? Should be somthing like: VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" -- caveat utilitor ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫
