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#1 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 12:20 PM

Inspite of doing and bluntly following the gentoo.org doc.I have
compaq-presario v3000 laptop.Which have RHEL5,openSUEE,Ubuntu in other
slices.None of them giving trouble.But why it stuck at boot I am not
able to figure it out.I have read quite a lot in the Gentoo
forums ,Applied lot of thing according to my architechture ,but
nothing help.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Bhaskar

#2 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 12:20 PM

unixbhaskar wrote:

> Inspite of doing and bluntly following the gentoo.org doc.I have
> compaq-presario v3000 laptop.Which have RHEL5,openSUEE,Ubuntu in other
> slices.None of them giving trouble.But why it stuck at boot I am not
> able to figure it out.I have read quite a lot in the Gentoo
> forums ,Applied lot of thing according to my architechture ,but
> nothing help.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks
> Bhaskar

Well, you could start by telling us what you see on the screen when you say
"it gets stuck at boot". We need the error messages verbatim in order to
know what's wrong. :-)

A first preliminary guess would be that you've configured the kernel wrongly
and forgot to include the drivers for your hard disk or something similar,
or perhaps you've made those modules and you're not booting with
an /initrd.../

If you want to boot without an /initrd,/ then your kernel *must* have the
drivers for your hard disk - I'm presuming PATA (IDE) or SATA - into the
kernel image itself, and not as loadable modules. In order to load a
module, the kernel must have access to the disk, and without the driver for
your disk, it cannot load any modules. In other words, it's a
chicken-and-egg problem... ;-)

--
Aragorn
(registered GNU/Linux user #223157)

#3 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 12:20 PM

unixbhaskar wrote:
> Inspite of doing and bluntly following the gentoo.org doc.I have
> compaq-presario v3000 laptop.Which have RHEL5,openSUEE,Ubuntu in other
> slices.None of them giving trouble.But why it stuck at boot I am not
> able to figure it out.I have read quite a lot in the Gentoo
> forums ,Applied lot of thing according to my architechture ,but
> nothing help.

There been a lot of trouble with the hardware clock on those machines from
HP/Compaq, I suggest you do the following:

mv /sbin/hwclock /sbin/hwclock_bin
echo "#!/bin/sh" > /sbin/hwclock
chmod 755 /sbin/hwclock

I suggest you enable the kernel to read the hardware clock, this way you will
have the correct system time after boot up.

Of course, there could be something else that goes wrong for you, I can't know
that with the huge amount of information.

--

//Aho

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