On Saturday, August 08, 2015 2:57:29 AM Felix Miata wrote: > I don't get why any distro leaves this out, why anyone wouldn't like to > automatically notice while booting any announcement that something failed, > especially someone who has just gotten a new installation up for the first > times. Why isn't --noclear set by default?
Because it's your choice (and your job) to set it or not. Gentoo is not a distro per se, it' more of a set of tools to help you build your own system. In most cases it provides whatever upstream ships with only patches and fixes as needed. There's also a logging setting on rc.conf that logs the boot process. The rest of your problems where due to failure to follow the handbook. > > Once I set this and rebooted I saw several things that needed fixing that I > didn't have a clue about: > > 1-error loading /etc/.../hostname (I had copied it from openSUSE installation > instead of following installation instruction, and without reading or saving > the existing one) > > 2-depending on hostname working, syslog-ng fails to start > > 3-missing mount points > > As a consequence of my ineptitude (and prior to reading > http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/FQDN) I did emerge -s hostname, found a package > by that name, and chose to emerge it. 30 minutes later, it and 3 dep packages > were still compiling, lots lots longer than a kernel compile. :-( > -- Fernando Rodriguez
