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Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 4:04 pm
by blighty
Was starting to think I was a numpty till I checked these forums,

I`m having the same problem with Home 6.0a on a stock 10GB,

Hope It gets fixed cos I miss my gentoox & am having to use my pc alot more again now.

P.S. Shallax : - this is the one area that I cannot test as I do not have a hard drive with sufficient capacity for a native installation!

Have you not tried cheesyboofs Tut - only takes about 20 mins & you can use a stock 10GB hdd

bLiGhTy.

Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 11:11 pm
by GeniuX
Linuxboot.cfg:

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title Gentoox
kernel /boot/vmlinuz
initrd no
append init=/linuxrc root=/dev/hda2 kbd-reset video=xbox:640x480,nohwcursor,hoc=13,voc=13
title Sparkle
kernel /boot/vmlinuz
initrd /boot/sprkrd.gz
append load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 ramdisk_size=26215 rw root=/dev/hda2 kbd-reset
Also the fstab while I'm at it:

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# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system>         <mount point>   <type>          <options>                               <dump>  <pass>
/dev/hda1               none            swap            sw                                      0       0
/dev/hda2               /               reiserfs        defaults,errors=remount-ro              0       1
proc                    /proc           proc            defaults                                0       0
/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom      iso9660         defaults,ro,user,noauto                 0       0
I'll download the initrd.gz and test is right away ;)

Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 11:15 pm
by ShALLaX
Ahh, so its your fault.

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/dev/hda2               /               reiserfs        defaults,errors=remount-ro
That is wrong. Reiserfs does NOT support errors=remount-ro. Change it to "notail".

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/dev/hda2               /               reiserfs        notail
Could people clarify this for me? Did YOU add the /dev/hda2 line... or was it something the installation script did? If its something you added.. then it's not a bug with Gentoox at all (more a bug with the tutorial you followed), and the whole Pro v4.0b release was pointless :\

Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 11:33 pm
by GeniuX
It came from cheesyboofs tutorial :P:P
Then edit the fstab on the new drive;
# vi /mnt/hda2/etc/fstab
/dev/hda1 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda2 / reiserfs defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
Proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
It wasn't me... realy 8)

Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 11:34 pm
by ShALLaX
Heh.. so all this has been a wild goose-chase "find the non-existant bug" for me.

Oh well... that line I gave you should fix it... let me know.

Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 11:39 pm
by GeniuX
Another thing...
I have 2 HDD's (10GB and 120GB)
I have Gentoox on the 10GB as a master HDD (slave modus; it won't boot), but the drive I'm adding doesn't support slave modus :(
But if I'm switching the drives (10GB Slave, 120GB Master) the bios doesn't see the Native install :(:(
Is it possible to put a 'linuxboot.cfg' on the 120GB HDD and point it to the bootfiles on the 10GB HDD???

:edit: Never mind.. I've messed around with the juper settings and it works, I'm now editting the fstab 8)
Do you still want me to test the initrd.gz?

Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 12:04 am
by ShALLaX
No, you're not even using the initrd. You can delete it and your installation will still work.

Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 12:14 am
by GeniuX
The outcome of the 'notail edit' says "The filesystem IS clean" in stead of "The filesystem is NOT clean"
Thanx for the help (now cheesyboofs needs to fix the tutorial 8) )

Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 5:40 am
by blighty
ShALLaX wrote:
Could people clarify this for me? Did YOU add the /dev/hda2 line... or was it something the installation script did? If its something you added.. then it's not a bug with Gentoox at all (more a bug with the tutorial you followed), and the whole Pro v4.0b release was pointless :\
I was wondering about that too, Mine doesn`t have the dvd drive line, I don`t use the dvd drive either.

Sorry to hear about your premature release ;)

Edited this afternoon :D Works like a charm on home 6.0a as well. Nice one :wink:

bLiGhTy.

Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 2:57 pm
by cheesyboofs
:oops: in my defence the bug didn't show up till shallax fixed it to notice the bug! Nice one guy's all round.

Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 3:18 pm
by ShALLaX
;)