Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure [solved]

2010-05-10 Thread Roger Mason
Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org writes: On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 11:49:01AM -0230, Roger Mason wrote Egg on face. The processor is listed in the bios as Intel EM64T. Does that mean I should re-build this as an amd64 system? No, it's not necessary. 64-bit Intel and AMD cpus will run

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-09 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 11:49:01AM -0230, Roger Mason wrote Egg on face. The processor is listed in the bios as Intel EM64T. Does that mean I should re-build this as an amd64 system? No, it's not necessary. 64-bit Intel and AMD cpus will run 32-bit mode without problems. It's your

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-07 Thread Mick
On Thursday 06 May 2010 17:03:54 Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 06 May 2010 10:03:59 -0500, Dale wrote: Did you mean press e ? No. I don't see anything in the man page about hitting the c key. What does that do? I've used e, b and such but never heard of c. It drops

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-07 Thread Andrea Conti
Are you sure ext[234] is compiled statically into the kernel in this .config? Also the drivers for the EIDE / SATA controller. Missing FS and/or controller drivers will result in a regular kernel boot with a panic at the end, when it's time to mount root and load init. In this case grubs

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 7 May 2010 07:28:00 +0100, Mick wrote: It drops you to the grub command line, it's documented on the GRUB menu screen itself, just after it tells you about e. Oh OK. I didn't reboot and read that part. lol I learned something today. Just hope I will remember it when I

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 06 May 2010 12:52:55 Mick wrote: When I get problems like this I usually run grub in a terminal and then use autocompletion to find out what grub sees: root (hd --tab it will list all partitions and hopefully help you find your boot partition. Then search for the

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-07 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Andrea, Andrea Conti a...@alyf.net writes: I would check the processor type setting (A 3GHz Celeron should be P4-based) and/or muck around with ACPI. Also try disabling framebuffer drivers and using a plain VGA console. Leave all advanced settings in your bios to their defaults. And

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-07 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 7 May, Roger Mason wrote: Hello Andrea, Andrea Conti a...@alyf.net writes: I would check the processor type setting (A 3GHz Celeron should be P4-based) and/or muck around with ACPI. Also try disabling framebuffer drivers and using a plain VGA console. Leave all advanced settings in

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-07 Thread Roger Mason
Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de writes: One more hint (that I've got earlier on this list) Boot from a rescue CD (preferably http://www.sysresccd.org/ ) then execute lspci -k it shows you all drivers that have been selected during boot. Many thanks fir the information.

[gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-06 Thread Roger Mason
Hello all, I just built a new machine (celeron 3 GHz) using a script that builds the kernel using genkernel and a config that is copied from that of the kernel on the install cd. The latter was downloaded and burned from a very recent autobuild. The build process appears to complete

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-06 Thread Mick
On 6 May 2010 09:37, Roger Mason rma...@mun.ca wrote: Hello all, I just built a new machine (celeron 3 GHz) using a script that builds the kernel using genkernel and a config that is copied from that of the kernel on the install cd.  The latter was downloaded and burned from a very recent

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-06 Thread Roger Mason
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: On 6 May 2010 09:37, Roger Mason rma...@mun.ca wrote: Can anyone suggest how to debug this? When I get problems like this I usually run grub in a terminal and then use autocompletion to find out what grub sees: root (hd --tab it will list all

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 06 May 2010 10:08:42 -0230, Roger Mason wrote: I assume you mean to boot from the install CD then chroot into the new install and run grub from bash? Press c at the GRUB menu. -- Neil Bothwick The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten per cent of its capacity ... the rest is

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-06 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 06 May 2010 10:08:42 -0230, Roger Mason wrote: I assume you mean to boot from the install CD then chroot into the new install and run grub from bash? Press c at the GRUB menu. Did you mean press e ? Dale :-) :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-06 Thread Mick
On 6 May 2010 13:38, Roger Mason rma...@mun.ca wrote: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: On 6 May 2010 09:37, Roger Mason rma...@mun.ca wrote: Can anyone suggest how to debug this? When I get problems like this I usually run grub in a terminal and then use autocompletion to find out

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 06 May 2010 08:34:49 -0500, Dale wrote: Press c at the GRUB menu. Did you mean press e ? No. -- Neil Bothwick RAM DISK is NOT an installation procedure! signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-06 Thread Roger Mason
Roger Mason rma...@mun.ca writes: Can anyone suggest how to debug this? Egg on face. The processor is listed in the bios as Intel EM64T. Does that mean I should re-build this as an amd64 system? If the answer to that is yes, then I don't understand why the x86 install CD booted without

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-06 Thread Stroller
On 6 May 2010, at 09:37, Roger Mason wrote: ... I just built a new machine (celeron 3 GHz) using a script that builds the kernel using genkernel and a config that is copied from that of the kernel on the install cd. Are you sure ext[234] is compiled statically into the kernel in this

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-06 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 06 May 2010 08:34:49 -0500, Dale wrote: Press c at the GRUB menu. Did you mean press e ? No. I don't see anything in the man page about hitting the c key. What does that do? I've used e, b and such but never heard of c. Dale :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 06 May 2010 10:03:59 -0500, Dale wrote: Did you mean press e ? No. I don't see anything in the man page about hitting the c key. What does that do? I've used e, b and such but never heard of c. It drops you to the grub command line, it's documented on the GRUB menu

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-06 Thread Roger Mason
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: On 6 May 2010, at 09:37, Roger Mason wrote: ... I just built a new machine (celeron 3 GHz) using a script that builds the kernel using genkernel and a config that is copied from that of the kernel on the install cd. Are you sure ext[234] is

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-06 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 6 May, Roger Mason wrote: Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: On 6 May 2010, at 09:37, Roger Mason wrote: ... I just built a new machine (celeron 3 GHz) using a script that builds the kernel using genkernel and a config that is copied from that of the kernel on the install

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-06 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 06 May 2010 10:03:59 -0500, Dale wrote: Did you mean press e ? No. I don't see anything in the man page about hitting the c key. What does that do? I've used e, b and such but never heard of c. It drops you to the grub command

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 06 May 2010 13:07:37 -0230, Roger Mason wrote: This what grep SATA kernel-config says: # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_SATA is not set CONFIG_SATA_PMP=y CONFIG_SATA_AHCI=m CONFIG_SATA_SIL24=m CONFIG_SATA_SVW=m CONFIG_SATA_MV=m CONFIG_SATA_NV=m CONFIG_SATA_QSTOR=m CONFIG_SATA_PROMISE=m