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 ======================================================
