[gentoo-user] Problems installing Gentoo on an Asus EeePC 701
Hello folks. I have an Asus EeePC 701 (4GB) and I'm having problems installing Gentoo on it, so I wrote this giant e-mail to help you understand what is going on and what I have done and can't do. I have been using Gentoo for a while, so I am pretty comfortable on installing it and configuring it. Disks on my Eee: Internal Flash (4GB): /dev/sda1 - Ubuntu 8.04 (blergh, not for long) :-) SD Card (8GB): /dev/sdb1 - Gentoo 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 The Gentoo system is ready. I mean, it is still text-mode only, but I have some ideas about the other stuff to be installed, continue reading, please. :-) The problem is that I just can't boot the system. At first, I thought I had forgotten something when configuring the kernel. But I gave up that idea since me and a friend of mine re-checked it many times. I have installed Gentoo's grub on the MBR of /dev/sda, since I intend to remove Ubuntu later. The kernel hangs because it can't find /dev/sdb1 [1]. The system I consider a minimum usable text-mode system is already installed, configured and even up-to-date. I have tried a lot of different things. I tried booting Gentoo using the Ubuntu kernel. Sound reasonable, but Ubuntu's initrd (which later I realized is the one that recognizes my disks) already mount /proc and when Gentoo's RC comes up it oops because of /proc [2]. Since booting Ubuntu's kernel is just temporary, I won't edit the init.d script that mounts /proc on Gentoo. Anyway. By-the-way, something that is worth mentioning. When booting Ubuntu's kernel, it sometimes (not always) hangs at this point [3]. It stays there for four to five MINUTES, sometimes. But some other times is just goes straight. Even when hanging there for a while, it always passed that and boots the system. Also happens when trying to boot Gentoo with Ubuntu's kernel. I have done tons of online research, but what I found is people that successfully installed Gentoo on the EeePC. I've read and bookmarked these links [4] [5] just in case, but so far they didn't help me at all. [1]: http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br/~saffi/eee/Gentoo-Kernel_Gentoo.jpg [2]: http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br/~saffi/eee/Gentoo-Kernel_Ubuntu.jpg [3]: http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br/~saffi/eee/Gentoo-Kernel_Ubuntu2.jpg [4]: http://www.gentoo-wiki.com/Asus_Eee_PC_701 [5]: http://www.floccinaucinihilipilification.net/wiki/index.php/Gentoo_on_the_EEE_Pc I have ideas about installing the graphical system and other stuff later. I intend to share the ideas and will as soon as my basic system boots. Anyway, thanks in advance for any help! Best regards, Saffi -- Ricardo Saffi Marques http://www.rsaffi.com == Laboratory of System Administration and Security - LAS Institute of Computing - IC P.O. Box: 6176 University of Campinas - UNICAMP 13083-852, Campinas, SP, Brazil ==
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems installing Gentoo on an Asus EeePC 701
By the way, this might help. I put some files online, that you might wanna check: http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br/~saffi/eee/ * grub.conf * fstab * make.conf * Kernel config Best regards, Saffi -- Ricardo Saffi Marques http://www.rsaffi.com == Laboratório de Administração e Segurança de Sistemas - LAS Instituto de Computação - IC Caixa Postal: 6176 Universidade Estadual de Campinas - UNICAMP 13083-852, Campinas, SP, Brasil ==
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems installing Gentoo on an Asus EeePC 701
Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: By the way, this might help. I put some files online, that you might wanna check: http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br/~saffi/eee/ * grub.conf * fstab * make.conf * Kernel config Cheers! Daniel Veiga had the same issue and contacted me with the solution. My kernel was perfectly right. The solution is to add: rootwait rootdelay=10 in the kernel line. Gentoo is now running flawlessly! I intend to post here my mad ideas about compiling and installing the rest of the packages (mainly graphical stuff). Best regards, Saffi -- Ricardo Saffi Marques http://www.rsaffi.com == Laboratório de Administração e Segurança de Sistemas - LAS Instituto de Computação - IC Caixa Postal: 6176 Universidade Estadual de Campinas - UNICAMP 13083-852, Campinas, SP, Brasil ==
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems installing Gentoo on an Asus EeePC 701
Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: Hello folks. I have an Asus EeePC 701 (4GB) and I'm having problems installing Gentoo on it, so I wrote this giant e-mail to help you understand what is going on and what I have done and can't do. I have been using Gentoo for a while, so I am pretty comfortable on installing it and configuring it. snip Please don't hijack threads. Please write a new email to the list if you wish to start a new thread. Here's a google search with lots of good resources on hijacking threads. http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=thread+hijackingbtnG=Google+Search thanks! -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems installing Gentoo on an Asus EeePC 701
Eric Martin wrote: Please don't hijack threads. Please write a new email to the list if you wish to start a new thread. Here's a google search with lots of good resources on hijacking threads. You don't have to explain to me what thread hijacking means. I moderate a Brazilian e-group of 2900 people and am always saying that to members. Tell me what made you think I did that, because it sure ain't clear for me. Jeez, wake up. I wrote that e-mail from scratch. Regards, Saffi -- Ricardo Saffi Marques http://www.rsaffi.com == Laboratory of System Administration and Security - LAS Institute of Computing - IC P.O. Box: 6176 University of Campinas - UNICAMP 13083-852, Campinas, SP, Brazil ==
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems installing Gentoo on an Asus EeePC 701
On AD 2008 August 08 Friday 03:08:17 PM -0300, Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: You don't have to explain to me what thread hijacking means. I moderate a Brazilian e-group of 2900 people and am always saying that to members. Tell me what made you think I did that, because it sure ain't clear for me. Jeez, wake up. I wrote that e-mail from scratch. Your set of posts showed up as part of another thread in my client. Justin
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems installing Gentoo on an Asus EeePC 701
Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: Eric Martin wrote: Please don't hijack threads. Please write a new email to the list if you wish to start a new thread. Here's a google search with lots of good resources on hijacking threads. You don't have to explain to me what thread hijacking means. I moderate a Brazilian e-group of 2900 people and am always saying that to members. No need to get upset, I was politely asking you not to thread hijack and pointing you towards references Tell me what made you think I did that, because it sure ain't clear for me. It shows up under the Adding a gentoo workstation to Active Directory Network thread in thunderbird. Looking at the headers, your message has an In-Reply-To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] which means it was in reply to a message. Jeez, wake up. I wrote that e-mail from scratch. Regards, Saffi -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems installing Gentoo on an Asus EeePC 701
Justin Findlay wrote: Your set of posts showed up as part of another thread in my client. Well, not in mine. I wrote that from scratch, I insist. Anyways, I won't discuss about that here on the list. I disencourage thread hijacking and never did that. Sorry for any inconvenience if something weird and out of my control happened. Best regards and let's keep up the good work. Saffi -- Ricardo Saffi Marques http://www.rsaffi.com == Laboratory of System Administration and Security - LAS Institute of Computing - IC P.O. Box: 6176 University of Campinas - UNICAMP 13083-852, Campinas, SP, Brazil ==
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems installing Gentoo on an Asus EeePC 701
On Friday 08 August 2008, Eric Martin wrote: Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: Eric Martin wrote: Please don't hijack threads. Please write a new email to the list if you wish to start a new thread. Here's a google search with lots of good resources on hijacking threads. You don't have to explain to me what thread hijacking means. I moderate a Brazilian e-group of 2900 people and am always saying that to members. No need to get upset, I was politely asking you not to thread hijack and pointing you towards references Tell me what made you think I did that, because it sure ain't clear for me. It shows up under the Adding a gentoo workstation to Active Directory Network thread in thunderbird. Looking at the headers, your message has an In-Reply-To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] which means it was in reply to a message. Jeez, wake up. I wrote that e-mail from scratch. Same here, it shows as a hi-jack. I remember raising this on a previous occasion and was told that something is wrong with my client (or wasn't it?!). Either way, please tell us how your installation on EeePC comes along. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
