On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 11:49:52PM +0200, Moshe Kaminsky wrote: > Hi, > > I still can't boot into my new gentoo system. I tried several kernels, > and several configurations, but I still have the same problem: at the > end of the execution of /linuxrc, the machine reboots. > Though I get some error messages about /linuxrc not finding "test", I > don't think that's the problem. It seems the machine reboots after doing > "exec /sbin/init". I tried running /sbin/init from the shell (which I > can enter if I don't specify the real_root argument), and it said it > can't write channel /dev/initctl (or something similar). I don't know > what else to try.
Someone else on this list had boot problems because his /usr was on a different partition. I also couldn't get 'initrd' stuff to work with gentoo, so I just compiled the necessary modules into kernel and that fixed it. You may want to try to do the same thing. When you boot from the gentoo 'live' CD, do lsmod to get the list of modules your system is using. You only need to compile in the support for your filesystem and and SCSI if you have it. It's not hard and IMHO simplifies this problem greatly. In my case I ran genkernel with 'menuconfig' option, changed reiserfs, SCSI and driver for my SCSI card from 'module' to 'built-in' and it did the trick. -- - Andrey ~ In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they are different (Larry McVoy) ~ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
