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Well, I'm writing this email from my older machine right now, which has a Pentium II 333MHz processor, 60 GB hard drive, etc. The scheme of my partitioning is quite simple: /dev/hda1 = boot (ext3) /dev/hda2 = swap /dev/hda3 = root (reiserFS) My brand new computer follows the same scheme, except for the hardware: AMD Athlon XP Thoroughbred 2700+, 40 GB hard drive, etc. now I've already installed gentoo on this computer, and I had a few kinks but overall it ran quite nicely. I've had a bit of a more major problem on my new one, though... I was able to genkernel, but it died in the middle of startup (I did the "init=" fix that the mailing list suggested to compensate for the incorrect installation instructions) and dropped me a BusyBox in the middle of my initrd. I tried screwing genkernel and going for the gold (make bzImage modules etc...) and it worked fine... for one startup. in the middle of said session (I actually started up the XServer a few times) the computer locked up. no three-finger-salute could save me, so I hit the reset button. Crap, it shoots me an error about not being able to find tools like "ls" and "awk" and drops into the login, but of course everything's broken. I decide to take out the trusty-rusty LiveCD and give reiserFSck a whirl, since it might have experienced some trouble during the mysterious lockup. I reiserfsck three different ways until I figure out I need to --rebuild-tree. SHOOP entire filesystem goes into /lost+found. What is a boy to do? Thanks, Scott Jackson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/6gc/eNHiVTXLosARAoRNAKDYnCnc6g0WnJlrvyMyttrDafDh0QCfWYau piiMdYGglYarvfkolCqtn2I= =Fe1v -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
