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Gentoo on Clevo D900T

post #1 of 21
7/12/06 at 5:02pm
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I will try later this weekend to install the latest gentoo on a clevo d900t.

Anyone have any installation problems on this machine? Any hints and tips?
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post #2 of 21
7/12/06 at 5:27pm
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post #3 of 21
7/12/06 at 5:51pm
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Nice. Thanks
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post #4 of 21
7/13/06 at 11:33am
The xorg configuration info there is good (assuming you are using an Nvidia version). ALSA info is dated, sound drivers are now included in the 2.6 kernel used by 2006.0. Your wireless card may vary.

Whatever you do, I STRONGLY recommend you print out and follow the Gentoo provided 2006.0 installation documentation. My own personal preference is to use the command line install method instead of the new GUI installer used by default by the live CD (GUI still needs work I think). In addition there are several guides for tweaking various hardware and software that you'll find usefull on Gentoo's site.
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post #5 of 21
7/13/06 at 11:49am
There's a GUI installer in 2006.0? Argh! Kill it quick!

(die hard command line person here - it's why I love Gentoo so much!)
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post #6 of 21
7/13/06 at 11:54am
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I use gentoo for some years now, always im doin stage2 install by hand.

I will stick with the 2.6/stage3 for sure on this machine. Oh and... i hate that GUI... needs alot of work to be done.

The xorg looks perfect.

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Originally Posted by aaronjb
There's a GUI installer in 2006.0? Argh! Kill it quick!

(die hard command line person here - it's why I love Gentoo so much!)

Thats why i love Gentoo too!
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post #7 of 21
7/13/06 at 11:57am
Gentoo FTW

I was always a stage1 man - gutted when they removed 'official' support for the stage1 install method
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post #8 of 21
7/13/06 at 11:59am
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Quote:
Originally Posted by aaronjb
Gentoo FTW

I was always a stage1 man - gutted when they removed 'official' support for the stage1 install method

Yeap thats bad... ;/
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post #9 of 21
7/13/06 at 12:09pm
The howto referenced above is also hosted at;

http://www.mumble.to/linux/d900t-install.html

In addition to the recommendation for following the Gentoo docs for your install, I would suggest that there's little bits and pieces in the howto that seem dated. The reference to SATA driver support at the beginning and the patch for baselayout at the end in particular. The big challenges will be to pick the right SATA driver for your controller, and then to configure things like your WiFi and other hardware components correctly, (the howto seems like it has good information in these regards).

In addition to the Gentoo docs, the BEST place for questions with specific hardware issues and Gentoo, are at their forums. I've learned a ton there myself.. I searched there for Clevo D900T before coming here and the following was posted, which may help you (again some of it may be dated);

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t...evo+d900t.html
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t...evo+d900t.html
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t...evo+d900t.html

Lastly my Toshiba laptops support RAID configurations as well, but I would never use it on a laptop. Especially in a RAID 0 config as the howto author has indicated. You only need one problem with one drive to kill your entire volume. But since your laptop supports it, you may want to try it.. If you do, be careful and backup often..
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post #10 of 21
7/13/06 at 5:11pm
Actually at first glance it seems that the audio setup there will work fine, and is the way many audio folks prefer to do it as they can update ALSA in that method without having to recompile the kernel.

Seablade
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post #11 of 21
7/15/06 at 12:42pm
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Nice... the install was successfull, thanks to abf post.
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post #12 of 21
7/15/06 at 3:28pm
Congrats

I must admit, in a sick kinda way, I'm really looking forward to flattening the Nemesis when it arrives and installing Gentoo
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post #13 of 21
7/15/06 at 5:04pm
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The only problem is the grub...

After the installation restarted the machine and grab failed to boot... i was like WTF? TILT#$%

I was sure everything was ok, after spending 1 hour i disconnect my external HDD to move the machine and everything was ok....

Boot loader was normal after removing the ext HDD...
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post #14 of 21
7/15/06 at 5:22pm
That's kinda funky.. I guess the external enclosure must be messing with the boot order as reported by the BIOS, so grub's device numbers change..

Can you fix the boot order in the BIOS at all?
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post #15 of 21
7/15/06 at 5:42pm
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I tried... order change and even bios flash to the latest...

Anyway need to boot without the ext.
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post #16 of 21
7/15/06 at 6:21pm
Try adding "rootdelay=5" or "rootdelay=10" to the kernel parameters. This will make the system wait for the specified number of seconds before mounting root, hopefully long enough for the device to be fully initialized.
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post #17 of 21
7/31/06 at 2:53pm
i can not get my machine to boot gentoo, i think ive screwed up the kernel config file, and im not quite sure how to fix or rewrite it to default so that i can reattempt to boot.

i got grub to work, and windows hhd will still boot. gentoo hhd trys, but freezes up, and will not boot.

ive been trying to do this install for 5 days now.

not sure what to do, i really need some help.
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post #18 of 21
7/31/06 at 6:25pm
What happens when you boot your gentoo disk? Error Message? Lockup? When does it happen exactly?

Gotta post some details in order for us to be able to help you.

Seablade
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post #19 of 21
8/17/06 at 2:23pm
sry i took me so long to post, but i got slammed with family stuff and had to fly half way around the world for three weeks.

anyways.....

seablade, i get an error like this(whole page of it)

Unknown interrupt of fault at EIP 00010046 00000060 c02726d3




and then it just sits and doesnt nothing more.
any help would be great. thnx ahead of time.
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post #20 of 21
8/17/06 at 3:09pm
That is a new one on me....

I think I might start by booting from a live CD, chrooting into your gentoo envrionment and resource the files needed, and then move your .config file to a different location, and build your kernel using the genkernel script(So you end up with a generic kernel), making sure to use the bootloader flag so that it takes care of that for you as well. Then see if that boots, then we can go from there.

Seablade
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