[COLUG] Odd boot-time problem.

[William Yang]

Pat Collins wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 08:18:40 -0500, William Yang <wyang at gcfn.net> wrote :
> 
>> I am playing with a Dell Optiplex 320 PC, which I'm trying to re-image into 
>> a Gentoo linux box.  I'm trying to use Gentoo's automatic hardware 
>> discovery, which worked on the LiveCD I used to install the OS from.
>>
>> Grub appears to be installed (I get the grub menu) but it fails when I 
>> select any OS image, including memtest86 which I copied from the LiveCD. 
>> The system shows the kernel line, gives addresses in brackets, and stops 
>> before listing the initrd or doing anythign else.
>>
> 
> Did you use genkernel to build your kernel? Could you have forgotten to add
> support for the filesystem that the initrd is on?

I did use genkernel, and ext3 is on, according to the kernel's config 
file.  Even so, I don't see how that would affect the memtest86 image, 
which *also* doesn't boot.

	-Bill
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William Yang
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