Arrrgh, interrupted gentoo install..

[Stoo]

As above really, the install was on the "emerge system" stage about a couple of hours in when my dad thought it would be good to trip the main fuse panel out...

I've rebooted the system using the live cd, remounted the filesystems and chrooted to /bin/bash..

When I did "emerge system" again it told me that everything was up to date apart from 3 config files, but it was still in the middle of downloading and compiling things when the power went..

What now? Redo the bootstrap and try to emerge system again, or flatten the lot and start again?

[Stubzz]

If you are sure that the emerge system as cut short

emerge -eD world

shoule recompile everything. I take it you are starting from stage 1? If every seems to be working I'd just carry on and see if anything needs to be updated on the system.

[Stoo]

ah cheers, that seems to have kick-started it again

just need to wait while that does it's thing, then there's fstab, kernel, system tools, user stuff, lilo, and x11, and hopefully that should do the trick

[Stoo]

Okay, it took aaages, but it finally built.. kinda..

I followed the quicksetup guide, but now when grub loads and I tell it to boot, it comes up with following error message:

Linux kernel must be loaded before initrd

what gives??

Edit: oops.. Kernel *not* Kernal...

[Stoo]

hmm, fixed the typo and now it says:

kernel /kernel-2.4.25-gentoo root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc real_root=/dev/hda3 vga=792

Error 15: File not found

*confused*

[Stubzz]

The line looks line, whats the vga parameter for? You double checked the kernel version? All I can think of

[Stoo]

it was a framebuffer option thing, I'll probably bin it..

is there a command to find the kernel version?

[Agent]

is there a command to find the kernel version?

try:
uname -r

[Stubzz]

When your boot partition is mounted just do

ls /boot/kernel*

That should display the kernel name.

[Stoo]

When your boot partition is mounted just do

ls /boot/kernel*

That should display the kernel name.

"file not found"

eek.. it certainly built and compiled the kernel though..

try:
uname -r

Don't think that works as I'm having to boot from the live cd, so it picks up that, not the one on the hdd..

I looked in the portage dir for the source I used and apparently it's "2.4.20-gaming-r11" which I've put in the grub.conf file and it does that same thing

[Stubzz]

Looks like your kernel is not called kernel.x.x.x.x then. do:

ls /boot

One of them will be the correct kernel. bzImage is my guess.

Did you use genkernel btw?

[Stoo]

umm..

ls -a /boot

. .. .keep boot grub lost+found

and yup, I used genkernel..

[Stoo]

oh balls, looks like it failed to create the kernal build :/
/me wanders off scratching his head..

genkernel log file is here, if anyone can look over it and work out why it's not working I'd be mucho grateful

[oyster]

it's a compiler error... have you set any CFLAGS to non-defaults in /etc/make.conf?

what happens if you use
make oldconfig
make dep
make bzImage
make modules
make modules_install

instead of genkernel?

[Stoo]

it's a compiler error... have you set any CFLAGS to non-defaults in /etc/make.conf?

what happens if you use
make oldconfig
make dep
make bzImage
make modules
make modules_install

instead of genkernel?

CFLAGS="-03 -mcpu=athlon -funroll-loops -pipe"

Will try the manual config next..

edit: nope, that didn't work either :/

Any other ideas?

[oyster]

I have CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon -funroll-loops -pipe"

afaik O2 (optimise for size) is often quicker than O3 (optimise for speed), although it depends on the app that is being compiled. You could try the same settings as I have (although I don't have a great deal of faith that it'll help).

You're probably going to have to re-compile gcc and/or glibc. ...or start again with a stage 3 install?