Re: [gentoo-user] Installation problem
Thank you very much Peter. This is my ethernet card: 82557/8/9 Ethernet pro 100 I downloaded the latest cd minimal installation image for amd64. So what do you suggest me to do? thanks! Fabio Peter Alfredsen wrote: On Sunday 11 November 2007, Fabio wrote: I want to install gentoo from a minimal cd. I download the minimal AMD64 iso for my pc.. During the installation i arrived at this point: eth1: PHY reset until link up.. and there is no way to continue..i always obtain this error.. To know what causes this, it would be nice to know what kind of network card eth1 is. Googling for this suggests that it may be an r8169-based card, though the bug that caused the PHY reset until link up bug was solved in kernels =2.6.14. If it is such a card, you may be using an obsolete minimal cd and/or kernel. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Installation problem
On Monday 12 November 2007, Fabio wrote: Thank you very much Peter. This is my ethernet card: 82557/8/9 Ethernet pro 100 There are two ethernet cards in your machine, as evidenced by the error message eth1: PHY reset until link up. Enumeration starts at eth0, then eth1, etc. What is the other? The card you list is supported by the eepro100 kernel module. That module nowhere mentions the error you are receiving. The only modules that do are sis190 and r8169: sis190.c: net_link(tp, KERN_WARNING %s: PHY reset until link up.\n, r8169.c: printk(KERN_WARNING %s: PHY reset until link up\n, dev-name); Take note of the punctuation of the above messages. If indeed you have quoted the error message correctly, it would indicate that you have a r8169-based card in your machine. Does any other live-cds boot for you? If yes, post the output of the following commands: lspci lspci -n ifconfig lsmod I downloaded the latest cd minimal installation image for amd64. So what do you suggest me to do? By latest minimal installation image, do you mean install-amd64-minimal-2007.0.iso as available from: http://mirror.ing.unibo.it/gentoo/releases/amd64/2007.0/installcd/install-amd64-minimal-2007.0.iso ? The reason I'm making doubly sure that it is indeed the latest live-cd, is that the last time the PHY reset until link up error led to failures such as yours was many kernel revisions ago. That being said, there are some known problems with the r8169-based cards. For one, they will retain state when you reboot from windows. To test if that is what is causing this, power off your machine and pull the plug, wait 1 minute, re-insert power cord and boot. Also, the bug at http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6807 has some of the characteristics you describe. It was hopefully fixed in kernel 2.6.23. You could try to install Gentoo from a 2.6.23-based livecd such as paldo at: http://www.paldo.org/ The iso is at: http://www.paldo.org/paldo-live-cd-x86_64-stable.iso Gentoo only needs very few tools to be installed and most live-cds provide them. -- /PA -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Installation problem
On Monday 12 November 2007, Peter Alfredsen wrote: On Monday 12 November 2007, Fabio wrote: Thank you very much Peter. This is my ethernet card: 82557/8/9 Ethernet pro 100 There are two ethernet cards in your machine, as evidenced by the error message eth1: PHY reset until link up. Enumeration starts at eth0, then eth1, etc. What is the other? [snip] That being said, there are some known problems with the r8169-based cards. For one, they will retain state when you reboot from windows. To test if that is what is causing this, power off your machine and pull the plug, wait 1 minute, re-insert power cord and boot. MS Windows drivers for a number of cards were updated in the last few months to make sure that the card powers off completely upon shutdown. The trick is to either pull the plug between reboots, or to set up your BIOS to allow Wakeup-On-Lan. Hope this helps. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] Installation problem
I want to install gentoo from a minimal cd. I download the minimal AMD64 iso for my pc.. During the installation i arrived at this point: eth1: PHY reset until link up.. and there is no way to continue..i always obtain this error.. what shoul i do? Bye from Italy Fabio -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Installation problem
On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 19:27:25 +0100 Fabio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to install gentoo from a minimal cd. I download the minimal AMD64 iso for my pc.. During the installation i arrived at this point: eth1: PHY reset until link up.. and there is no way to continue..i always obtain this error.. what shoul i do? Bye from Italy Fabio take out eth1 if possible. you can put it back in later when you can deal with it better. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] installation problem of finding cdrom on a i965 board
As Intel pulled Ultra ATA out of the i965, they've got the JMircon controller handling the Ultra ATA instead of requirement a SATA optical drive. Here's the problem. It seems that Gentoo can't find the Ultra ATA CD-ROM handled by the JMicron controller during the installation, doesn't it? And how should i deal with it? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] installation problem of finding cdrom on a i965 board
As Intel pulled Ultra ATA out of the i965, really bloddy idea, imho, to abandon p-ata so early... It seems that Gentoo can't find the Ultra ATA CD-ROM handled by the JMicron controller during the installation, doesn't it? And how should i deal with it? If I were you, I'd go and buy some cheap old pci-raid/p-ata board (highpoint, promise, etc, something known to linux, you can get it for a couple of bucks) and I would attach cd/dvd-drive there... Jarry -- Der GMX SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen! Ideal für Modem und ISDN: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/smartsurfer -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Installation Problem
G'day, So far, I've twice had the Gentoo install run for 12 hours and then found the machine hung. Rebooting shows a partially completed install. I'd like to find what's going wrong so I can complete my (first) Gentoo installation! Environment: x86-LiveCD-2006.0.iso P-III 450Mhz 256MB Ram Creative 52X IDE CD-ROM AHA-2940U/W SCSI controller Fujitsu 18GB SCSI HD KVM Switch used to share keyboard, monitor, and video between current Linux box (Mandriva) and Gentoo install machine. LiveCD boots and gentoo doscsi is used. The install is configured using GUI tool. The packages chosen are mostly GRP as I'm trying to keep life simple (for now). Using a terminal window, I've scp'd installprofile.xml and clientconfiguration.xml to the Mandriva box. I then click on install and the machine goes to work building packages. At this point I use the KVM to switch to my other machine and let the install go to work. Periodically I switch back to check install progress. After approx 12 hrs of building packages, I find that the machine has hung. The screen shows the installer window, but only it's background displays -- no text is visible (for example building package 37/95. If I then boot from the hard drive I get: Mounting root mknod //newroot/dev/console: No such file or device mknod //newroot/dev/tty1: No such file or device Booting (initramfs) chroot: Cannot execute /bin/sh: No such file or device Kernel panic not syncing: Attempted to kill init. At this point I can boot with the LiveCD, go to the command line, mount the root and boot partitions, run chroot, and have a partially usable system. What's the recommended procedure for completing the install? Regards, David -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Installation Problem
On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 08:01 -0500, David Relson wrote: G'day, Hi So far, I've twice had the Gentoo install run for 12 hours and then found the machine hung. this sounds like a hardware issue - I would guess that you either have faulty ram (or something similar); or your cpu is getting too hot! It is often the case that these issues don't surface until you do something intensive like compile gentoo! What's the recommended procedure for completing the install? I've never used the graphical install from 2006.0, so I don't know how you can continue from there, but have a look at section 6 of the gentoo handbook (not the 2006.0 version): http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1chap=6 6. Installing the Gentoo Base System 6.a. Chrooting follow the instructions up to and including the chroot command (no need to do the mirrorselect or dns info commands) Once you've chrooted to your new install, just type 'emerge --resume' and it should continue from the last package that was installed. Hope this works for you, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't make eight cats pull a sled through the snow. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
