Re: [gentoo-user] Re: WAS [.. min install isos] gentoo vm guest not booting

2011-06-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > As a follow-up to your problems, and because I'm just plain interested > in this /dev/null,console question, I decided to create a completely > new Gentoo VM myself from scratch this morning. I'm going FAR more > slowly than usual as, like you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: WAS [.. min install isos] gentoo vm guest not booting

2011-06-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 7:16 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Mark Knecht writes: > >> I'm very curious - did you happen to try appending something like >> >> init=/sbin/init 1 >> >> to the boot kernel command and seeing what happens? That might be >> instructive about where it's really getting to or wh

[gentoo-user] Re: WAS [.. min install isos] gentoo vm guest not booting

2011-06-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Mark Knecht writes: > I'm very curious - did you happen to try appending something like > > init=/sbin/init 1 > > to the boot kernel command and seeing what happens? That might be > instructive about where it's really getting to or what is stopping it > from proceeding. Mark, I rm'ed all of it a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: WAS [.. min install isos] gentoo vm guest not booting

2011-06-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 19:58:52 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > Anyway, I'm downloading the latest stage3 I found (06/14) I'll explode > it in a test directory and see whats there. I've emerged so much > stuff now on the one I been working on that I hate to bugger it up if > there is much chance of sal

[gentoo-user] Re: WAS [.. min install isos] gentoo vm guest not booting

2011-06-26 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick writes: > On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 13:34:56 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> (From chrooted shell) >> >> root@sysresccd /dev % ls -l console null >> crw-rw 1 root root 5, 1 Jun 26 17:33 console >> crw-rw 1 root root 1, 3 Jun 26 17:33 null > > When you chroot to the install root,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: WAS [.. min install isos] gentoo vm guest not booting

2011-06-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > > First, thanks for going well beyond the call of duty and showing the > patience of Job. > Gawd, you must not know about all the public help I've received here over the years? It's the LEAST I can do. > Those files are there already and h

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: WAS [.. min install isos] gentoo vm guest not booting

2011-06-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 13:34:56 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > (From chrooted shell) > > root@sysresccd /dev % ls -l console null > crw-rw 1 root root 5, 1 Jun 26 17:33 console > crw-rw 1 root root 1, 3 Jun 26 17:33 null When you chroot to the install root, you normally bind mount dev first,

[gentoo-user] Re: WAS [.. min install isos] gentoo vm guest not booting

2011-06-26 Thread Harry Putnam
Mark Knecht writes: > On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 7:19 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> >> The boot process does get a little farther but comes to a halt at >> >>  Switching to clock source tsc >> >> And there it has sat for some time now.  Apparently is not going to continue. > > That EXACT symptom wa

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: WAS [.. min install isos] gentoo vm guest not booting

2011-06-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 7:19 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > > The boot process does get a little farther but comes to a halt at > >  Switching to clock source tsc > > And there it has sat for some time now.  Apparently is not going to continue. That EXACT symptom was EXACTLY what we saw on new hardwa

[gentoo-user] Re: WAS [.. min install isos] gentoo vm guest not booting

2011-06-26 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam writes: > Mark Knecht writes: > >> I think we're not communicating then. The file I sent you was [...] > Egad... I wasn't far off about brain dead. I got mixed up with > another fellow who posted an appliance. I'm really sorry. And thanks > for the config... I'll try it with a k

[gentoo-user] Re: WAS [.. min install isos] gentoo vm guest not booting

2011-06-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Mark Knecht writes: > I think we're not communicating then. The file I sent you was > /usr/src/linux.config in the VM. It's not a file that VB would run, > but rather a kernel config you might use to build a kernel to make > your VM boot. That of course assumes that the hardware model you built >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: WAS [.. min install isos] gentoo vm guest not booting

2011-06-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Mark Knecht writes: > Here's the kernel config from my 64-bit 2.6.38-gentoo-r3 VM >>> >>> Mark is that guest running in vmware or something else than Virtual Box. >> >> The guest that uses that kernel is running in Virtualbox-4.0.8. >> >

[gentoo-user] Re: WAS [.. min install isos] gentoo vm guest not booting

2011-06-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Mark Knecht writes: >>> Here's the kernel config from my 64-bit 2.6.38-gentoo-r3 VM >> >> Mark is that guest running in vmware or something else than Virtual Box. > > The guest that uses that kernel is running in Virtualbox-4.0.8. > > The host is a Gentoo64-bit system, 98% stable, 2% ~amd64. Sor

[gentoo-user] Re: WAS [.. min install isos] gentoo vm guest not booting

2011-06-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick writes: > On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 20:18:57 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> But now that I tried booting, I think I'm missing some kind of driver >> from the kernel build... boot is not able to find my root on sda3. >> And has a kernel panic. >> >> I remember having a heck of a time ab

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: WAS [.. min install isos] gentoo vm guest not booting

2011-06-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Mark Knecht writes: > >> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 7:09 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >>> Harry Putnam writes: >>> I didn't think to get the right wording before rebooting into SystemRescueCD and am now chrooted into the vm again. >>> >>>

[gentoo-user] Re: WAS [.. min install isos] gentoo vm guest not booting

2011-06-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Mark Knecht writes: > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 7:09 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Harry Putnam writes: >> >>> I didn't think to get the right wording before rebooting into >>> SystemRescueCD and am now chrooted into the vm again. >> >> Here are the boot messages in a screen grab >> >>  www.jtan.com

[gentoo-user] Re: WAS [.. min install isos] gentoo vm guest not booting

2011-06-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam writes: > I didn't think to get the right wording before rebooting into > SystemRescueCD and am now chrooted into the vm again. Here are the boot messages in a screen grab www.jtan.com/~reader/vu2/disp.cgi