Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text

2009-06-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:52:26 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: Yes, just the first few `blah [ok]' lines... maybe 3. Assuming that's the scenario, boot with your install media, enter the chroot, then take a peek at the logs in /var/log. Hopefully you can find a hint. In progress on

[gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text

2009-06-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Mike Kazantsev mk.frag...@gmail.com writes: Okay, the syslog is probably not one of them, so /var/log shouldn't be too populated, except for rc.log, which should be enabled specifically in /etc/rc.conf (w/ baselayout-2) or /etc/conf.d/rc - look for rc_logger line or something similar with

[gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text

2009-06-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes: On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:50:23 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: Mounted the new root and emerged a few things while still chrooted. It'd be difficult to list quickly since I can't boot it, but the highlights are: You can find this from

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text

2009-06-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:03:37 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: You can find this from /var/log/emerge.log, if the install system has genlop installed, you can get a list with genlop -l -f /chroot/path/var/log/emerge.log Yeah thanks... I knew that... what I meant by `difficult to list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text

2009-06-10 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:01:02 -0500 Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Mike Kazantsev mk.frag...@gmail.com writes: Okay, the syslog is probably not one of them, so /var/log shouldn't be too populated, except for rc.log, which should be enabled specifically in /etc/rc.conf (w/

[gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text

2009-06-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes: On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:03:37 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: You can find this from /var/log/emerge.log, if the install system has genlop installed, you can get a list with genlop -l -f /chroot/path/var/log/emerge.log Yeah thanks... I knew

[gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text

2009-06-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com writes: I really have no idea what to change when I boot off the install media. You emerged reiserfsprogs before the machine was up and running. Does this somehow imply that you are trying to boot from a Reiser partition and could that be part of the problem?

[gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text

2009-06-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Roy Wright r...@wright.org writes: [...] I really have no idea what to change when I boot off the install media. So you have grub installed, the grub menu appears, you select a boot option, boot starts, the usual kernel messages flash by, you get to the second part of the boot where the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text

2009-06-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Harry Putnamrea...@newsguy.com wrote: Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com writes: I really have no idea what to change when I boot off the install media. You emerged reiserfsprogs before the machine was up and running. Does this somehow imply that you are trying

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text

2009-06-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Harry Putnamrea...@newsguy.com wrote: Roy Wright r...@wright.org writes: [...] I really have no idea what to change when I boot off the install media. So you have grub installed, the grub menu appears, you select a boot option, boot starts, the usual kernel

[gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text

2009-06-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com writes: And just incase its something related to the newest kernel I've downgraded to 2.6.29-r2 and building from an old .config of 2.6.28. (not genkernel on this one) I think he was hoping that you would find something in your chroot/var/log/messages file

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text

2009-06-09 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:52:26 -0500 Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Roy Wright r...@wright.org writes: So you have grub installed, the grub menu appears, you select a boot option, boot starts, the usual kernel messages flash by, you get to the second part of the boot where the