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Gentoo on Twinhead N15RB

post #1 of 7
6/22/05 at 3:40pm
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Hey guys,

For the past few days I've been trying to install Gentoo on my notebook (P-M 1.6ghz, 80gb, 512mb) without much luck. After completing the install, it boots until it says "Checking root filesystem" then it stops. If I boot with the LiveCD I can mount and use the root filesystem fine, so it can't be corrupted. I've posted my fstab and grub.conf's on the gentoo forums, but no one was able to give any useful suggestions....so I thought maybe it was a laptop-related conflict.

I recently did the entire installation over again (including re-configuring and compiling the kernel) but it still sticks at that one point. Is there something that has to be specifically configured in the kernel for this laptop?

I installed Mandrake on here a few weeks ago, and that worked fine (but I like Gentoo better) so I know it can work with linux.

Any help would be appreciated
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post #2 of 7
6/22/05 at 6:22pm
Please link to your Gentoo Forums thread, as it contains valuable information. One possibility, have you installed the tools to check your filesystem (e2fsck, etc.)?
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post #3 of 7
6/22/05 at 7:53pm
The other thing is if it needs an initrd to load the rest of the drivers for the controler. Once you give us a link we can help you out more.
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post #4 of 7
6/23/05 at 8:54am
Check the following:

grub.conf
fstab
whether you have the filesystem compiled in the kernel
whether you have the filesystem's TOOLS emerged
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post #5 of 7
6/26/05 at 1:49am
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http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t...ighlight-.html


I'm positive that I compiled ext3 support into the kernel, and in fact I did a recompile just to make sure.

If I boot with the liveCD and chroot into my installation I can check the hard drive using fsck.....so does that mean the tools are installed?

Thanks guys, and sorry for the semi-late reply with the link.
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post #6 of 7
6/26/05 at 3:30pm
I tend to agree with the last post in the thread, try with defaults first. It's the whole philosophy of "get is working first, optimize later.

My thoughts would be to change the fstab to:
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/dev/hda6 /boot ext2 defaults 1 1 
/dev/hda7 none swap sw 0 0 
/dev/hda8 / ext3 defaults  0 0 
none /proc proc defaults 0 0 
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0

Another thought, though: on one of my machines, the CD detected the hard drives with the generic IDE driver and they appeared as /dev/hda#. Once I rebooted, however, my kernel detected it with the serial ata stuff which names them /dev/sda#. Thus, my fstab was completely wrong. I don't think that's your issue though. That usually results in a "cannot mount root" thing long before it even attemps to fsck it.

Enjoy!
Dan
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post #7 of 7
6/26/05 at 7:14pm
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I just tried using defaults, and nothing has changed
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