After doing some more repartitioning*, and the computer booted up fine and all was going well. Partitions reported being at the size they should be etc. Then while doing an emerge (how you install new software in Gentoo), a program related to it called ebuild.sh started taking up like 100% CPU (it was what I think is called kernel mode, the bar was red, which usually only happens during things like hard drive access.) And it didn't seem to be doing anything, so I CRTL-Ced, but my CPU monitor still showed 100% CPU usage.
I couldn't figure out how to kill it, so I just restarted. Now my computer hangs on calculating module dependencies. Usually what follows is a list of various drivers followed by green *'s, and a few like emu10k1 which red !!'s since there probably unnecesary and I haven't recompiled them for the new kernel. I can actually hear my CPU spend up when it gets to the hang, so I'm guessing my CPU is working hard. I've let it go for several minutes, but it just sticks there. I used Knoppix to comment out all the modules in modules.autoload to no effect. In other words, I have full access to my Gentoo partitions. I did a reiserfsck /dev/hda5 (my root partition) and got many messages like this: bad_indirect_item: block 86563: item 255447 255455 0x1 IND (1), len 16, location 2536 entry count 0, fsck need 0, format new has a pointer 3 to the block 103095 which is in tree already And ended with this message: Comparing bitmaps..free block count 1861398 mismatches with a correct one 1864149. on-disk bitmap does not match to the correct one. Bad nodes were found, Semantic pass skipped There were found 2 corruptions which can be fixed only during --rebuild-tree I ran the reiserfsck --rebuild-tree /dev/hda5, but it put up a really scary warning message, saying it was only to be used as a last resort due to its beta quality. Considering I'm not even sure if FS damage is my problem, I decided againist running it. Thanks goodness for Knoppix though, I havn't figured out DivX in Windows XP yet so I would be really lost and anime-less without it. (Windows XP works fine by the way). Ian Monroe *I shrunk my NTFS partitioned, and expanded my FAT32 data partition into it at the installfest. Using parted, I deleted another FAT32 partition that was at the end of the drive, and move/expanded some /home reiserfs into it. Then I expanded the root reiserfs partition into the remaining space (expanding it about 4 gigs). Since parted on Knoppix isn't compiled with Reiserfs (silly Debian), I was using Gentoo linux runlevel 1, so I was able to do things like umount /home and even / and then use parted. ----------------------------------------------------------------- To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -----------------------------------------------------------------
