Logged in after failed boot. /home & /boot are mounted, but nothing in them when I ls. ls of / shows all the normal things there.
While logged in, I'm still getting boot messages, where USB devices, eg the mouse, disconnect and reconnect. There are a ridiculous number of sd devices in /dev. sda, sdb, sdc, sdd all go to 15. sda is the hard drive, sdb/sdc for USB devices. Never had sdd. Did see some errors, notably "cannot mount /run" bad superblock or something like that. Its hard to scroll back with USB messages constantly appearing, half a screenful each time. On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 6:40 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 08.08.2013 10:43, schrieb Daiajo Tibdixious: >> I got new hardware for a home desktop a few days ago. >> Downloaded install-amd64-minimal-20130801.iso and am still booting >> from that cd as hard drive boot fails. >> >> I turned on logging in /etc/rc.conf, but no /var/log/rc.log is produced. >> The disks are mounted but readonly. I guess from this the problem is >> occurring before the root partition is mounted. >> >> I only have 4 partitions: boot, swap, root, and home. Since everything >> important is on the root partition, I'm not using an initramfs. >> >> I have many times tried to catch the error by watching the screen, but >> it scrolls past way to fast. >> >> The last part of the boot messages before things go crazy is >> "Switching to clocksource TSC". >> >> I've been reading up on grub, but don't see anyway to get more info on >> what is going wrong. >> >> If I boot from the cd and chroot to the disk, everything seems to work >> fine. /boot is ext2 fs and this is my grug.conf: >> default 0 >> timeout 20 >> splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz >> >> title Gentoo Linux 3.8.13 >> root (hd0,0) >> kernel /boot/3.8/13-0/bzImage root=/dev/sda3 >> > > > and what is happening? >
