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- Thu Dec 02, 2004 11:40 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: stuck and rescue won't run
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3495
seems like bad hw
ok, i got the pro install to boot, once, but nothing since then. the rescue boots with a new error almost every time. sometimes it just hangs before 'startting stardust'. sometimes it clears the screen and gives kernel erros like: error <6> reinitializing init or error <6> mounting devfs, no init. i...
- Thu Dec 02, 2004 8:28 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: stuck and rescue won't run
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3495
stuck and rescue won't run
folx, i'm really stuck here and have tried a bunch of stuff and researched a bunch of ideas and am coming up emtpy. i have a friendtech pre-modded dream-x system (which i'm starting to think is the problem) i tried to install friendtech MCE, which worked up through the gentoox install part and then ...
- Thu Dec 02, 2004 3:52 pm
- Forum: Newbie
- Topic: install MCE not working
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2454
rescue cd doesn't work
i used the rescue cd successfully before i installed the gentoox loader. now the gentoox loader *only* gives the option of "install stardust" and there appears to be no way to boot from a cd. is there some secret way to get those other icons (the left two icons) to work from the loader? is...
- Thu Dec 02, 2004 2:49 pm
- Forum: Newbie
- Topic: install MCE not working
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2454
unable to mount devfs
the specific error (the part that i can read) is:
unable to mount devfs. error -5
no init found. try passing "init=" to loader
hrm.
any ideas how to proceed from here would be greatly appreciated.
thanks,
todd
unable to mount devfs. error -5
no init found. try passing "init=" to loader
hrm.
any ideas how to proceed from here would be greatly appreciated.
thanks,
todd
- Thu Dec 02, 2004 2:39 pm
- Forum: Newbie
- Topic: install MCE not working
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2454
followup
thanks for the reply. i have found a stardust iso in the home gentoox distro, but it crashes on an error "no init found". hrm. so i'd be happy to try to reflash with the MCE bios. how do i do that? right now i've got the gentoox loader installed and it doesn't allow me to do anything other...
- Wed Dec 01, 2004 8:23 pm
- Forum: Newbie
- Topic: install MCE not working
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2454
install MCE not working
folx, i'm having a variety of problems instlling the MCE. here's the narrative: i downloaded the MCE from friendtech (it's a friendtech modded box). i booted off it of. the screen was (and remains) cut off on the top and on the right. this severely impedes troubleshooting. the flashing of the bios s...