The machine just hangs, does not do anything after this. local.start is empty except for carriage return, this is the second time I encounter this problem on my Inspiron 8000 (Dell), which is why I rebuilt from scratch starting with a stage3 tarball. I have looked through the forums, but the best suggestion so far has been that X is starting, yet I have not yet emerged X or enabled it in rc.local . The install instructions have been followed step-by-step to the best of my ability. 1.2 worked fine on this machine, however now I must mention the kernel will not boot with PCMCIA support or USB on this machine, but that is of no concern to me right now and so I have disabled these features in the kernel to get this far. Thanks for all the good work : )
I am not ignoring you, but I can't find a good reason for this ATM...
Ok : ) I have taken out the harddrive with the gentoo installation so that I can return to the problem easily (and hopefully will soon). If you have any suggestions to what SHOULD be happening after Starting Local please let me know... I'm still abit inexperienced with the Gentoo-way but I can find my way around shell scrips fairly well.
thing is that the boot script for local just sources /etc/conf.d/local.start hmm... does your local.start **EXIST?
yes, I tried adding echo "..." to the end of it + new line,, the echo came out just fine on the screen, so I know the file existed and was called correctly. I'm giving it another shot now,, want to make darn sure I'm not wasting your time...
I have an inspiron 8200 and have the EXACT same problem... hangs at "Starting local...". Also hangs with USB and pcmcia.. I'm thinking this is somehow possibly kernel related and fsck'ing the /etc/inittab script. Logs show nothing. Am trying to get X working now. Greg
Ahh, this is probably a hang when starting the USB devices detection process... what kernels was this on?
2.4.19 I believe,, the one that came with 1.4RC1 and the unreal tournament CD (sorry, I don't have access to this laptop right now)
The problem seems to be somewhere in the gentoo-source patches or 2.4.19 kernel: I rebuilt the machine with 1.4rc2 yesterday and today, compiling a 2.4.19- gentoo-r10 kernel WITHOUT any USB support makes the machine stop at * Starting local as before, but: Using the vanilla 2.4.20 kernel it boots just fine, including with USB support, now I only need to figure out how to build the Nvidia module for the right kernel since portage goes for gentoo-sources. Happy holidays and all the best for the new year : )
Arne have you tried lolo-sources? Since it's new, it might work better (more included bug fixes)
This should work fine with lolo-sources as they are based entirely on vanilla-2.4.20 and all the patches against vanilla are carefully tested. If not, reopen.
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