Re: [gentoo-user] Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text
On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:50:23 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: 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: You can find this from /var/log/emerge.log, if the install system has genlop installed, you can get a list with genlop -l -f /chroot/path/var/log/emerge.log -- Neil Bothwick How do you know that honesty is the best policy until you have tried some of the others? signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Harry Putnamrea...@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
Re: [gentoo-user] Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text
On Jun 9, 2009, at 7:50 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: I've just completed first part of a fresh install. [snip] 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. So you have grub installed, the grub menu appears, you select a boot option, boot starts, the usual kernel messages flash by, you get to the second part of the boot where the lines look like: blah... [OK] Then something goes crazy. Assuming that's the scenario, boot with your install media, enter the chroot, then take a peek at the logs in /var/log. Hopefully you can find a hint. HTH, Roy
