I decided to create another partition to install Gentoo. Everything was going well until I had problems getting nvidia installed for X. I installed a vesa driver to make sure that X was working and it was..
After getting frustrated, I stopped working on the nvidia changes and play with compiling another kernel and this is where I ran into some major problems. I compiled a new kernel under root and copied it over to /boot/grub and updated menu.lst to reflect the changes. However, when I rebooted, I was unable to get into the new update (it could not find root under sda7). I then tried to go back to my prior working kernel and it now has problems with modprobe. I went and did an update-modules force and that did not fix the problem. I think that I might have gotten in over my head on this one. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix my modprobe issue? Also, do I have to compile under chroot? I did not think that I needed to this, but I am starting to wonder. Is there a way to recover from this without having to reinstall? The downside with Gentoo is that you have to download the sources. For me, it is very difficult to do via dialup. I had to borrow a broadband line, but I have used up 1Gb of it and would like to avoid having to do that again. _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
