No problem. A good resource is http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/list.xml, specifically the "Installation Guides" section. If you follow Nate's suggestion and use your own init script you won't have to worry about this stuff.
Gabe Veydan Wu wrote: > > Thank you for your reply, Gabe, but I still don't understand, I run > this linux on M5, which device should I mount the /dev/ROOT, how > should I decide the mount point ? Sorry for such silly question. I > dont't quite understand how this work. > > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:58:17 -0800 > From: Gabe Black <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > Subject: Re: [m5-users] fix the problem of "unable to open an > initialconsole" and a new problem of booting gentoo > To: M5 users mailing list <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > Message-ID: <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Yes it is. You're suppose to change /dev/ROOT to, for instance, > /dev/hda1. The BOOT and SWAP lines you can probably just remove > entirely. > > Veydan Wu wrote: > > Thank you for replying so quick, Gabe, the mount point of > /dev/ROOT is > > not dummy, if "/". the content of the /etc/fstab is below > > > > //dev/BOOT /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2 > > /dev/ROOT / ext3 noatime 0 1 > > /dev/SWAP none swap sw 0 0 > > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,ro 0 0 > > #/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto 0 0/ > > > > How should I correct that ? Thank you! > > > > > > > > Yes. This is actually a pretty common error when installing > Gentoo. > > You need to modify /etc/fstab to reflect your mount points > instead of > > the dummy values /dev/ROOT, etc. The image your using is > supposed to > > be a starting point for installing Gentoo so it won't be > quite ready > > to boot right away. I can't think of anything off the top of > my head > > beyond setting up fstab that's absolutely necessary, though. > > > > Gabe > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > m5-users mailing list > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > m5-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users _______________________________________________ m5-users mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users
