Hi,
You can restart the machine with the live cd, try to mount the root fs again: mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/gentoo in case the root partition is the second partition on your first ide drive. You should then take a look at /mnt/gentoo/var/log/emerge.log This should give you some info on which package the compilation crashed... Maybe you can post it here... Elton On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Jason Newquist wrote: > Hey, > > Great community. I've been lurking for a while before finally > deciding to install Gentoo, which I attempted to do yesterday! > > I've attempted to install on my three year-old Dell Dimension 8100 > 1.5Gz P4 + 512MB RAM + 200GB disk & 80GB disk, twice now, and the > installation has hung on a black screen both times - both last > night. Before the install, this box had been running Red Hat 9 for a > few months, with absolutely no problems, so I'm confident that the > hardware is good. > > First time, I tried stage 1, by the book. I modified /etc/make.conf > to specify an i686 (it was i386), but that's it. It hung during the > bootstrapping process somewhere. > > Second time, I tried stage 2, by the book, no modififcations to any > config files. A couple times during the various compiling process I > heard a series of five beeps. By the time I ran into the office to > check the machine and hit a key to bring it out of screensaver mode, > whatever it was that had caused that had scrolled off the screen. > Anyway, hours later, it was still going, so I went to bed. Woke up > this morning, and poof - black screen, frozen. > > I simply turned the box off. Is there anything I can do at this > point to diagnose the problem? Would throwing my hands in the air > and going with stage3 be admitting defeat? Are there Dell-specific > things that I somehow missed in the FAQs? Should I have done > something to my config files at stage1 and stage2 - perhaps some > kernel option or whatever? > > Jason Newquist > San Francisco Bay Area > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
