On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 08:03:51 -0600, Collin Starkweather wrote:
> To preface the question, I should mention that I'm currently residing in
> China, so communication with the networking guys on this end is a bit
> difficult because the communication algorithm typically begins, "Step 1:
> Learn Chine
A few months ago I tried installing gentoo. It mostly succeedes, but I
was unable to boot the new system.
When I boot, it fails as follows:
>> Activating mdev
>> Determining root device
!! Block device /dev/mapper/lovesong-gentoo is not a valid block device
!! The root block device is unspecifie
On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:49:45 -0700, ds wrote:
> On 7/13/07, Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> A few months ago I tried installing gentoo. It mostly succeedes, but I
>> was unable to boot the new system.
>>
>> When I boot, it fails as follows:
>>
On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 13:28:00 +0100, Mike Williams wrote:
> On Friday 13 July 2007 20:19:33 Hendrik Boom wrote:
>> A few months ago I tried installing gentoo. It mostly succeedes, but I
>> was unable to boot the new system.
>>
>> When I boot, it fails as fol
On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 20:00:47 +0100, Mike Williams wrote:
> On Saturday 14 July 2007 18:53:27 Hendrik Boom wrote:
>> Very interesting. It gets further with the dolvm2 pernel option (I
>> specified udev first for good measure, as indicated in the howto, and it
>> got furthe
On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 19:37:57 +, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 20:00:47 +0100, Mike Williams wrote:
>
>> On Saturday 14 July 2007 18:53:27 Hendrik Boom wrote:
>>> Very interesting. It gets further with the dolvm2 pernel option (I
>>> specified u
On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 22:42:43 +0100, Mike Williams wrote:
> On Sunday 15 July 2007 22:00:15 Hendrik Boom wrote:
>> Fixed /etc/fstab so that it now refers to /dev/lovesong/gentoo. And fstab
>> gets the message, because it now complains that there's no
>> /dev/lovesong
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:03:57 +, 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.
Ah! Stupid typo! it is *NOW
On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 12:49:21 -0500, Dan Farrell wrote:
> it takes just as much power to
> spin up the drive as to keep it spinning for a few extra minutes.
So ... spin it down after a few more minutes?
-- hendrik
>
> Thanks for the report, I found it very interesting.
--
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On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:44:32 +0100, Mike Williams wrote:
>
> 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
Still having trouble with my first gentoo install. Now X fails to come
up.
The relevant message seems to be;
# grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
(EE) Failed to load module "kbd" (module does n
On Sat, 01 Sep 2007 18:53:08 +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
> Hendrik Boom schrieb:
>> Still having trouble with my first gentoo install. Now X fails to come
>> up.
>>
>> The relevant message seems to be;
>>
>> # grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log
>&g
On Sat, 01 Sep 2007 19:52:11 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> On Saturday 01 September 2007 19:24:51 Hendrik Boom wrote:
>> > Have you enabled the keyboard USE flag under INPUT_DEVICES in
>> > xorg-xserver? You can set this in make.conf.
>>
>> make.conf ends w
On Sun, 02 Sep 2007 11:30:03 +, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>
> So I proceeded to emerge xorg-server for real. No more keyboard problems.
> Instead I get the black screen of death. The monitor on light starts
> bliking, indicating it is getting no signal, ctrl-alt-backspace and
Well, with bare X up, I decided it was time to install a window manager.
I picked xfce4 and icewm.
I emerged xfce4, and after a lot of packages, it finally told me:
reemerge x11-libs/cairo with the X USE flag set
Well, I emerged icewm with no problems, then went back to xfce4 by
changing my use
I'm in the process of installing gentoo now, in the hope of getting it to
work more reliably (and more up-to-date) than Debian. Debian's 2.6.18-3
kernel includes backported msync-optimising patches from 2.19 that don't
work properly and have the effect of sometimes causing serious file-system
dama
Installing gentoo for the first time, starting yesterday. I just got to
the point of choosing the system logger as described in section 9b of
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=9
and syslog-ng gives me a traceback.
| (chroot) lovesong etc # emerge -vp syslog-ng
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