Did a completely fresh install onto a different hard drive with ext3 instead of reiserfs.
Same results.
However, I can't say what I did but now on the reiserfs drive it no longer gives me problems about the sysfs and continues without problem.
so...
KamaolaKid wrote:
Did you compile in SATA support for the kernel (under SCSI low level drivers IIRC)? If so, did you compile support for the Promise FT (not as a module)?
I would boot up with the livecd, mount your / partition and comment out the /home mount (this probably isn't the problem, but it is a start to debugging...only include the necessary elements until you discover the problem).
I tried this and I get a little further.
It seemed one of my previous problems was with syslog-ng.
So I emerge -C syslog-ng and del from rc-update, and rm -f from /etc/init.d/syslog-ng.
I then emerged metalog and added it to rc-update default.
Everything seems fine up to...
Configuring kernel parameters... [OK] Updating environment...
Here is where it is currently locking up.
Any ideas about what at this point could cause the boot failure?
Any ideas as to what could be the problem with the /home directory?
I can mount the /home directory fine when booting off of the CD. Could I be missing something in kernel config?
It is a large directory. The drive is 250gb and all but 25M (boot) and 10000M or 10G (root) are allocated to /dev/sda3 (home).
Any help greatly appreciated.
Jimmie Houchin
Also, as the install guide suggests, is /dev file system support compiled into the kernel (and automount for it). If you are using the 2.6 kernel, you also need /dev/pts.
I have 2 240 Opterons as well, but my / partition is ext3. I had problems with X locking up when I used XFS or ReiserFS. my fstab is: /dev/sda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2 /dev/sda2 / ext3 noatime 0 1 none /proc proc defaults 0 0
let me know if you find out the problem!
-- Kyle S.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jimmie Houchin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 8:31 PM
Subject: [gentoo-user] Boot problems - AMD64 install
Hello,
I am installing Gentoo on my AMD64 server. I compiled the gentoo-dev-sources kernel (2.6.0test9).
On attempting to boot off the hard drive I am getting errors and it is locking up.
System: Arima RioWorks HDAMA motherboard, 2 240 Opterons, Promise FT S150 SATA Raid (on board), 4 SATA drives, 4gb ram.
/etc/fstab #Leaving out all the comments /dev/sda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 1 /dev/sda2 / reiserfs noatime,defaults 0 0 /dev/sda3 /home reiserfs noatime 0 0 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0
I have also tried: proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 on the last line as it is in my desktop fstab. But no success with it either.
Below is my boot screen.
*Mounting proc at /proc ... OK *Mounting sysfs at /sys ... can't create lock file /etc/mtab~83: Read-only file system (use -n flag to override)
...and it continues OK until
*Mounting local filesystems ...
here it locks up.
The first time I tried to boot it off the hard drive it couldn't mount sysfs because of no /sys directory. One of the messages in the forum said to mkdir /sys. I did that and the error message changed but still no successful boot.
I've tried to search the forums and have not found anything to help.
I have other issues I posted to the forum. But no replies. Is there a better mailing list for specifically Gentoo AMD64 problems? I posted this one here because I don't know it is specifically AMD64.
Any help greatly appreciated.
Jimmie Houchin
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