Oh great masters of the Linux! I plead to you (aka another distro, another problem)

[Redwolf]

I can just hear the groanings going on out there. "*GROAN* He got ANOTHER one? Why can't he just be happy with ONE distro?!?!?"). Two reasons: 1) I can't find one that I like, and 2) I want to try as many distros as I can so I know what's out there. I have quite a library of Linux ISOs now.

So what's today's distro for Redwolf? Gentoo

Stop your complaining! I know what I'm doing! (<-famous last words) Well, okay, so...maybe I don't. That's what TIMO is for!!!! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA--*err-hem* yeah.

Okay, here's Red's problem of the day: It won't boot!

I did everything the instructions on www.gentoo.org said to do. To the letter. The kernel compiled sucsesfully (found out why it reversed my controllers too even! Okay, so here's the message I get. It loads up jsut fine, then when it gets to init, it goes crazy fast and stops as it displays:

INIT: Can't find "/sbin/agetty"
....Displays about 20 times...
INIT: c1 went too fast. Disabled for 5 minutes (not exact message, will haveta reboot and write it down)
"c2"
"c3"
"c4"
"c5"
"c6"
INIT: Nothing left in runlevel to do.

Then it locks up. If I press Ctrl+C, nothing happens. If I press Ctrl+Alt+Del, it displays "INIT: Cannot find "/sbin/halt"".

When I load the liveCD and mount the drive, I look in the sbin directory and see that the files are there (agetty and halt).

I did a stage 2 install, flags of -03 -mcpu=atholon-xp -pipe(something, can't remember what) set in portage (great app BTW). Something's not working right (duh), and I get the feeling it has something to do with the kernel options I chose (don't know what tho...).

Specs:

MSI KT4V mobo (KT400/VT8235)
Atholon XP 1700+
Sil 680-based ATA 133 controller (works with Gentoo, yay!)
SB Live!
20 GB Maxtor drive (with linux, on the Sil680 board, recognized as /dev/hda)
20 GB WDC drive (with Windows, recognized as /dev/hde under linux)
80 GB Seagate drive (my stuff drive (FAT32), recognized as /dev/hdf under linux)


NOTE: I don't want to fix the drive lettering quite yet, as I know how to do that yet. I can apparently load the kernel just fine the way it is now.

[KraM]

It can't find agetty and halt. I'd say you passed the wrong partition in the root= option to the kernel in your bootloader or you didn't run emerge system before you rebooted...

Anyway I'd suggest posting your problem on the gentoo forums (forums.gentoo.org)...

[Redwolf]

I did run an emerge system before I booted and I did pass the right root= option. I fixed the problem, can't remember exactly how now. I think I had some really wierd setting in my fstab. Oh well, it's hostory now. Now I have another issue. For my next trick, I will post the contents of /var/log/everything/current:

Jul 28 12:16:01 [modprobe] modprobe: Can't locate module ...
Jul 28 12:16:01 [dhcpcd] dhcpStart: ioctl SIOCGIFHWADDR: No such device 
Jul 28 12:16:01 [rc-scripts] Failed to bring eth0 up
Jul 28 12:16:01 [rc-scripts] ERROR:  Problem starting needed services.
Jul 28 12:16:01 [rc-scripts] "netmount" was not started.
Jul 28 12:16:01 [cron] (CRON) STARTUP (fork ok) 
Jul 28 12:16:24 [login(pam_unix)] session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Jul 28 12:30:00 [CRON] (root) CMD (test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/run-crons ) 
Jul 28 12:30:33 [dhcpcd] dhcpStart: ioctl SIOCGIFHWADDR: No such device 
Jul 28 12:30:36 [dhcpcd] dhcpStart: ioctl SIOCGIFHWADDR: No such device 
Jul 28 12:31:46 [init] Switching to runlevel: 6
Jul 28 12:32:58 [modprobe] modprobe: Can't locate module ...
Jul 28 12:32:58 [dhcpcd] dhcpStart: ioctl SIOCGIFHWADDR: No such device 
Jul 28 12:32:58 [rc-scripts] Failed to bring eth0 up
Jul 28 12:32:58 [rc-scripts] ERROR:  Problem starting needed services.
Jul 28 12:32:58 [rc-scripts] "netmount" was not started.
Jul 28 12:32:59 [cron] (CRON) STARTUP (fork ok) 
Jul 28 12:33:11 [login(pam_unix)] authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=/dev/vc/1 ruser= rhost=  user=root
Jul 28 12:33:11 [login] FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM /dev/vc/1 FOR root, Authentication failure
Jul 28 12:33:19 [login(pam_unix)] session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Jul 28 12:35:03 [init] Switching to runlevel: 1
Jul 28 13:02:37 [kernel] uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd000, IRQ 21
Jul 28 13:02:37 [dhcpcd] dhcpStart: ioctl SIOCGIFHWADDR: No such device 
Jul 28 13:02:37 [rc-scripts] Failed to bring eth0 up
Jul 28 13:02:37 [rc-scripts] ERROR:  Problem starting needed services.
Jul 28 13:02:37 [rc-scripts] "netmount" was not started.
Jul 28 13:02:38 [cron] (CRON) STARTUP (fork ok) 
Jul 28 13:02:52 [login(pam_unix)] check pass; user unknown
Jul 28 13:02:52 [login(pam_unix)] authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=/dev/vc/1 ruser= rhost= 
Jul 28 13:02:52 [login] FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM /dev/vc/1 FOR UNKNOWN, Authentication failure
Jul 28 13:03:01 [login(pam_unix)] session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Jul 28 13:06:03 [init] Switching to runlevel: 6
Jul 28 13:26:30 [dhcpcd] dhcpStart: ioctl SIOCGIFHWADDR: No such device 
Jul 28 13:26:30 [rc-scripts] Failed to bring eth0 up
Jul 28 13:26:30 [rc-scripts] ERROR:  Problem starting needed services.
Jul 28 13:26:30 [rc-scripts] "netmount" was not started.
Jul 28 13:26:30 [cron] (CRON) STARTUP (fork ok) 
Jul 28 13:27:03 [login(pam_unix)] authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=/dev/vc/1 ruser= rhost=  user=root
Jul 28 13:27:03 [login] FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM /dev/vc/1 FOR root, Authentication failure
Jul 28 13:27:11 [login(pam_unix)] session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Jul 28 13:27:27 [dhcpcd] dhcpStart: ioctl SIOCGIFHWADDR: No such device 
Jul 28 13:29:23 [init] Switching to runlevel: 6

If you can't tell, my problem is this:

Jul 28 13:26:30 [rc-scripts] Failed to bring eth0 up
Jul 28 13:26:30 [rc-scripts] ERROR: Problem starting needed services.
Jul 28 13:26:30 [rc-scripts] "netmount" was not started.

So I have no network. Oh joy. I built my NIC driver (the Via-Rhine one) into the kernel. This one has me stumped and I may post to forums.gentoo.org if I can't get it fixed by tonight. If you need any files posted I'm happy to oblige.

[nukes]

Are you doing it by DHCP or static address?
Did you let it merge all the config files in /etc that it wanted, this can be a bad idea as half the time it will overwrite things like fstab, make.conf and almost any other file you need.
Try editing /etc/conf.d/net and check all your settings are still there, also check /etc/hostname and anything else in /etc that you have edited manually.

[Redwolf]

I let it merge /etc, but I waited until after that to start messing with the files. My changes to /etc/hostname still stand. I may want to go redo localdomain, since I don't know if that stuck or not.

I'm doing it by DHCP, since I use a Linksys Router.

[Redwolf]

Oh ya, I'm using rc4 with the gentoo-sources kernel.

[Redwolf]

Okay, fixed it. I wasn't mounting my /boot partiton so I wasn't replacing my kernel

[nukes]

lol, I've done that before, but its quite a good security feature as the GRUB config file is also stored in /boot and means nobody can screw with your boot process unless they get to your machine physically.

[Redwolf]

wee it works now!

[nukes]

Gentoo is definatley my fave distro ATM. Net based package installer, and compiling from source with really funky CFLAGS. Don't believe the docs, Compiling with -O4 works fine with most things as well, and speeds it all up a bit more. However, with GCC3.3, lots of programs won't compile anymore (most notably the kernel) as it is getting further into standard-compliance, but once everythings fixed, we get SSE instructions! Wee. Then I'll have to build everything again though.