On Tuesday 17 July 2007 17:03:57 Hendrik Boom wrote: > It took some trouble -- as of now I only have emerge working in the chroot > from Debian -- but after installing lvm2 it is not cheerfully recognising > all the LVM paritions at boot.
All a good learning process, glad you got it working. Oh and you're right, english sucks, and I'm english. > Now for the next problem. emerge doesn't work because the net connexion > is down. Presulably it would be OK if I had a local repository, but iI > don't. > Except for lo (which I can wonder about anon) the most striking difference > is that gentoo uses eth0; whereas Debian uses eth1. It's better that lo is there, but obviously isn't necessary as Debian doesn't have it. > Now as far as I know, there's only one ethernet interface on this machine. > But I could be wrong. I do know that there's just one place to plug the > cable into the back. ifconfig -a, will show all recognised interfaces. > Running ifconfig to find out more, especially to see if the MAC addresses > are different: > Now that's a surprise. Quite sone difference! Debian gives ma an > ordinary 48-bit hardware address. Gentoo gives a 128-bit hardware > address! And the bits of the 48-bit address aren't even recognisable > in the 128-bit address. Now I understand that hardware addresses have been > getting longer, but O haven't been adding ethernet chips to this machine > since I bought it, so they should all be of the same vintage. > > What gives? Gut reaction, firewire. I've seen exactly the same on my own boxes. Debian is doing the same too, so I'd just go add a net.eth1 symlink change your config and use that instead, just don't remove firewire networking support, or you ethernet interface may become eth0 (udev might save you). > Here's the output from gentoo-s lspci -v: > 03:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Agere Systems FW323 (rev 04) (prog-if 10 > [OHCI]) Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 5811 > Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 19 > Memory at ed000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] > Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 Bingo, firewire. -- Mike Williams -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
