On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Harry Putnam<rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: > I've just completed first part of a fresh install. > > Mounted the new root and emerged a few things while still chrooted. > > It'd be difficult to list quickly since I can't boot it, but the > highlights are: > > eix > genkernel > gentoolkit > gentoolkit-dev > gentoo-sources > grub > lynx > ntp > reiserfsprogs > rsyslog > vim > vixie-cron > > And a number of dependancies pulled in from my use flags. > > I didn't want to start from scratch dinking around with kernel params > so elected to go the `genkernel all' route, hoping that with that much > junk being compiled... surely I'd get whatever I needed to start the > process of building up this installation. > > I realize there are many who have lots of rants against genkernel but > unless you think that is the core of the problem... please hold off on > advice to build my own kenel. > > kernel = 2.6.29-r5 > > What I see on reboot: > > Normal booting appears to be going along then moments after dev is > mounted followed by filesystems... a massive screen full of text > begins scrolling by and never stops. > > Impossible to read any of the text and neither pause/break or > scroll/lock keys have any effect. > > Appears to be a continuous wrapping line repeated. > > But it completely kills the boot process, and no further progress is > possible. > > I really have no idea what to change when I boot off the install media.
You emerged reiserfsprogs before the machine was up and running. Does this somehow imply that you are trying to boot from a Reiser partition and could that be part of the problem? Does the machine have a serial port and do you have access to a second machine that you could capture and save the early boot messages? That might be helpful. I know many machine now don't support that. There may be ways to do something similar over the network or USB if the boot gets that far. - Mark
