yesterday i built gentoo. at first i couldn't get the kernel to boot, so i had to turn off acpi in the grub.conf file. then i made it farther down the boot, but i was cut off with several errors. this list was printed a number of times: attempt to access beyond end of device 01:00: rw=0, want=4171, limit=4096 and then it dumped into a shell BusyBox v1.00-pre7 (2004.06.12-20: 18+2000) Built in shell (ash) next line: /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off after a couple minutes of no action /bin/sh: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7 where have i screwed up? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot w/o live cd Actual Results: see above Expected Results: full boot into /bin/bash, operational gentoo linux system
Post your grub.conf please. I suspect you've messed up the initrd settings.
Add "ramdisk=8192" to your boot parameters in grub.conf.
