G'day, So far, I've twice had the Gentoo install run for 12 hours and then found the machine hung. Rebooting shows a partially completed install. I'd like to find what's going wrong so I can complete my (first) Gentoo installation!
Environment: x86-LiveCD-2006.0.iso P-III 450Mhz 256MB Ram Creative 52X IDE CD-ROM AHA-2940U/W SCSI controller Fujitsu 18GB SCSI HD KVM Switch used to share keyboard, monitor, and video between current Linux box (Mandriva) and Gentoo install machine. LiveCD boots and "gentoo doscsi" is used. The install is configured using GUI tool. The packages chosen are mostly GRP as I'm trying to keep life simple (for now). Using a terminal window, I've scp'd installprofile.xml and clientconfiguration.xml to the Mandriva box. I then click on install and the machine goes to work building packages. At this point I use the KVM to switch to my other machine and let the install go to work. Periodically I switch back to check install progress. After approx 12 hrs of building packages, I find that the machine has hung. The screen shows the installer window, but only it's background displays -- no text is visible (for example "building package 37/95". If I then boot from the hard drive I get: >> Mounting root mknod //newroot/dev/console: No such file or device mknod //newroot/dev/tty1: No such file or device >> Booting (initramfs) chroot: Cannot execute /bin/sh: No such file or device Kernel panic not syncing: Attempted to kill init. At this point I can boot with the LiveCD, go to the command line, mount the root and boot partitions, run chroot, and have a partially usable system. What's the recommended procedure for completing the install? Regards, David -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list