Hi, I was having trouble with my desktop and couldn't get it to boot. There were some files on the hard drive that hadn't been included in my last backup that I wanted. On a lark, I took the hard drive out of my desktop (built by me) and put it into and old Dell Optiplex GX100 that I have. Yes, I know - different hardware.
I booted to the Gentoo Stage 3 installation CD and pretty much followed all the steps that are in the Gentoo Handbook. The only things that I didn't do were partition the hard drive and do the section on installing Grub. The problem that I am having with the installation is that the install CD recognized my network device and the internet connection works fine, even in the chroot'd environment. However, when I boot from the hard drive, the network connection is *not* recognized. The card is a 3Com 905C and the driver that I am supposed to load, according to "Help" when I was compiling genkernel, is 3c90x. However, when I boot, I get an error when it comes to configuring dhcp. dmesg provides no help 'cause it looks like it is loading the appropriate driver. And before you ask - :-) I *did* do the step 'cp -L /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc/resolv.conf when I was supposed to. (I'm adding that last comment because it *was* a step I missed the first couple of times I installed Gentoo!) Any ideas? Regards, Colleen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
