loading stalls after resctoox -f drive

BMXpunk13 · Post by **BMXpunk13** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 11:04 pm

i just did an ftp install of home 3.2 to my e drive and tried to move it to my f drive with resctoox, which i installed on my e drive also, and every thing went fine but now gentoox fails to load. the last line I can read (but not the last line, stupid 1.6 box) sayd something about "cannot start dev /console (file not found or missing)" or something to that effect. what should I do?!?! im a newb by the way.

Post by **ShALLaX** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 1:48 am

Eep, something went wrong

Maybe reinstall.

BMXpunk13 · Post by **BMXpunk13** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 9:19 pm

I reinstalled (via ftp again) and had it up and running fine, i ran magic and updated everything then i ran resctoox (from the hdd, as you instructed someone how to in another post) and I still have the same results. it looks like it is trying to load rootfs from the cdrom, as someone in another post has already mentioned. could this be a problem with running resctoox from the hdd? I cant use a cd, all I have are crappy cd-r's so thats out of the picture for me. any help would be appreciated!

*update*
I moved rootfs and swap back to the e drive via ftp and now it works fine, apparently all resctoox did was move those files, it didnt change any of the other files to point to the relocated rootfs and swap. isnt that what it is supposed to do? how can I make this work, i only have 240mb left on E so i need to get gentoox moved to F asap.

vplayer · Post by **vplayer** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 9:52 pm

did you download the new/latest resctoox.

BMXpunk13 · Post by **BMXpunk13** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 2:00 am

yes, I downloaded resctoox 1.4 and gentoox home 3.2

BMXpunk13 · Post by **BMXpunk13** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 11:44 pm

maybe someone who has gentoox 3.2 working on their f-drive could send me the files I need to load gentoox from my f-drive? just and idea.

gerner · Post by **gerner** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 12:09 pm

Bumpety bump. Same problem here. Any ideas ?

Post by **ShALLaX** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 1:07 am

How big are your F drives (and do you have G drives?)

gerner · Post by **gerner** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 1:12 am

Big F-drive for me, 160gb. No g-drive.

Post by **ShALLaX** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 1:13 am

That could be why. What you need to do is run magic FIRST, then do the f-drive trick. Try that out and let me know.

gerner · Post by **gerner** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 1:17 am

Okay no probs. Will set magic to work tonight and will post back tomoz.

gerner · Post by **gerner** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 4:53 pm

Okay, sorry for the delay. I've ran magic and then tried the f-drive script from rescootx. No go I'm afraid

Same problem "cannot start dev /console" kernel panic. Moved rootfs and swap to E:\ and it works fine.

Is it possible to do as BMXpunk13 suggests and simply use someone elses initrd and vmlinuz to make it load rootfs from F:\ ??

evilxbox · Post by **evilxbox** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 6:32 pm

i dont know, only thing i can say. ftp install is only thing thats works for mine 1.6(a)

I also never successfully updated with the magic tool, so i just use gentoox like it comes of the disk and live with that.

<post with xbox btw

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