[gentoo-user] Boot partition question

2008-08-19 Thread Kevin Philp
I already have 32 bit Ubuntu up and running on my computer and I am about to install the AMD64 version of Gentoo. I have a separate /boot for Ubuntu - should I use the same /boot for Gentoo or am I better off using a separate boot partition for each operating system? Thanks Kevin.

[gentoo-user] Firefox, Thunderbird and OpenOffice seg faults

2006-02-20 Thread Kevin Philp
My system has just gone wonky - I am running ~AMD64 and today I can't run Firefox, Thunderbird or OpenOffice. I get the following errors: kryton kevin # thunderbird-bin No running windows found 1553: Î(tU 1553: Î(tU/usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: line 119: 1553 Segmentation fault

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with mysql 4.1 upgrade

2005-11-07 Thread Kevin Philp
:17 [ERROR] Aborting I did read that innodb was a use flag (its not in my make.conf) and emerge -pv mysql doesn't show it up. On 07/11/05, Catalin Trifu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, What does the mysql log say ? /var/lib/mysql/host.err Catalin Kevin Philp wrote: Last week I

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with mysql 4.1 upgrade

2005-11-07 Thread Kevin Philp
I edited the my.cnf file and changed innodb_log_file_size= 5M to innodb_log_file_size= 8M and now it works again. Kevin. On 07/11/05, Kevin Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't seem to have the log file you mention but this is in the mysqld.err file. /var/log

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with new kernel

2005-05-30 Thread Kevin Philp
Yes ext3 and via_sata are configured in the kernel and not as modules. All the filesystem sections are compiled directly into the kernel and all the device drivers I need for the motherboard. Kevin. On 29/05/05, Bob Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 29 May 2005 21:52:42 +0100 Kevin

[gentoo-user] Problem with new kernel

2005-05-29 Thread Kevin Philp
I have been using a 2.6.7 kernel for months quite happily. Recently I decided to upgrade to 2.6.11-r9 but I am having problems. When booting it stalls with VFS: Cannot open root device 2105 or unknown block Googling around I can see its a common problem and I have tried the following without