I just did a stage 3 installation on a Pentium 3 733MHz computer, and it will not boot properly. I followed the instructions in the Gentoo Handbook. I used 2005.1-r1 When it starts, I get to the normal init process, it checks the filesystems,etc. Then I get a message that repeats a lot saying 'INIT: Cannot execute "/sbin/agetty"' And then it says something about "respawning too fast disabled for 5 minutes" I'm still able to chroot from Knoppix, and that's what I'm using right now. I re-emerged util-linux and it's updated to the latest stable version. I thought that would be a good way to go because agetty is a part of util-linux Here's a copy of my emerge --info Anything you could do to help would be greatly appreciated. Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.12 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.11 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-Os -march=pentium3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-Os -march=pentium3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="C" LC_ALL="C" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 crypt cups dvd eds emboss encode expat foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib ipv6 jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline sdl spell ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev vorbis xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY And here's a copy of rc-upate show Knoppix / # rc-update show bootmisc | boot checkfs | boot checkroot | boot clock | boot consolefont | crypto-loop | domainname | boot gpm | hdparm | boot hostname | boot keymaps | boot local | default nonetwork localmount | boot modules | boot net.eth0 | net.lo | boot netmount | default nscd | numlock | default rmnologin | rsyncd | sshd | urandom | boot vixie-cron | default Right now I'm doing an "emerge -veu system" Hopefully that will help. Thanks for your help
It was a problem with fstab The root and boot filesystems had 'user' appended to them. It works now, sorry for the trouble
