Alright, installed Gentoo from 2006.0 LiveCD. Everything goes fine till emerging grub. I used the installer on the CD as the CVS installer didn't like partitioning. http://synergy6.googlepages.com/installer.log.failed http://synergy6.googlepages.com/installprofile.xml http://synergy6.googlepages.com/emergeinfo.txt From Output : -- /usr/lib/ >>> /usr/lib/grub/ >>> /usr/lib/grub/i686-pc-linux-gnu/ --- /boot/ Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3228, in ? mydepgraph.merge(pkglist) File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1912, in merge retval=portage.doebuild(y,"merge",myroot,self.pkgsettings,edebug,tree="porttree") File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2771, in doebuild return merge(mysettings["CATEGORY"],mysettings["PF"],mysettings["D"],mysettings["BUILDDIR"]+"/build-info",myroot,mysettings,myebuild=mysettings["EBUILD"],mytree=tree) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2946, in merge return mylink.merge(pkgloc,infloc,myroot,myebuild) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6984, in merge return self.treewalk(mergeroot,myroot,inforoot,myebuild,cleanup=cleanup) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6593, in treewalk if self.mergeme(srcroot,destroot,outfile,secondhand,"",cfgfiledict,mymtime): File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6849, in mergeme if self.mergeme(srcroot,destroot,outfile,secondhand,offset+x+"/",cfgfiledict,thismtime): File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6841, in mergeme os.mkdir(mydest) OSError: [Errno 5] Input/output error: '/boot/grub' Exception received: EmergePackageError :FATAL: emerge: Could not emerge sys-boot/grub-0.96-r2! Please submit a bug report (after searching to make sure it's not a known issue and verifying you didn't do something stupid) with the contents of /var/log/install.log and /tmp/installprofile.xml and the version of the installer you used From Log: GLI: June 04 2006 01:50:12 - get_deps(): deplist for grub: ['sys-boot/grub-0.96-r2'] GLI: June 04 2006 01:50:12 - get_deps(): checking to see if sys-boot/grub-0.96-r2 is already in pkglist GLI: June 04 2006 01:50:12 - get_deps(): adding sys-boot/grub-0.96-r2 to pkglist GLI: June 04 2006 01:50:12 - get_deps(): pkglist is ['sys-boot/grub-0.96-r2'] GLI: June 04 2006 01:50:12 - install_packages(): pkglist is ['sys-boot/grub-0.96-r2'] GLI: June 04 2006 01:50:12 - install_packages(): processing package sys-boot/grub-0.96-r2 GLI: June 04 2006 01:51:02 - Exception received during 'Configuring and installing bootloader': EmergePackageError :FATAL: emerge: Could not emerge sys-boot/grub-0.96-r2! GLI: June 04 2006 01:51:02 - Traceback (most recent call last): GLI: June 04 2006 01:51:02 - File "/opt/installer/GLIClientController.py", line 165, in run self._install_steps[self._install_step]['function']() GLI: June 04 2006 01:51:02 - File "/opt/installer/templates/x86ArchitectureTemplate.py", line 39, in install_bootloader exitstatus = self._portage.emerge(bootloader_pkg) GLI: June 04 2006 01:51:02 - File "/opt/installer/GLIPortage.py", line 222, in emerge raise GLIException("EmergePackageError", "fatal", "emerge", "Could not emerge " + pkg + "!") GLI: June 04 2006 01:51:02 - GLIException: EmergePackageError :FATAL: emerge: Could not emerge sys-boot/grub-0.96-r2! GLI: June 04 2006 01:51:02 - DEBUG: waiting at top of 'while' loop in CC in secondary thread...waiting to start step 21, Setting up and running bootloader GLI: June 04 2006 01:51:02 - DEBUG: install_failed_cleanup(): gathering mounts to unmount GLI: June 04 2006 01:51:03 - DEBUG: install_failed_cleanup(): running: umount -l /mnt/gentoo/sys GLI: June 04 2006 01:51:03 - DEBUG: install_failed_cleanup(): running: umount -l /mnt/gentoo/proc GLI: June 04 2006 01:51:03 - DEBUG: install_failed_cleanup(): running: umount -l /mnt/gentoo/fat GLI: June 04 2006 01:51:03 - DEBUG: install_failed_cleanup(): running: umount -l /mnt/gentoo/dev GLI: June 04 2006 01:51:03 - DEBUG: install_failed_cleanup(): running: umount -l /mnt/gentoo/boot GLI: June 04 2006 01:51:03 - DEBUG: install_failed_cleanup(): running: umount -l /mnt/gentoo GLI: June 04 2006 01:51:03 - DEBUG: install_failed_cleanup(): running: umount -l GLI: June 04 2006 01:51:03 - DEBUG: install_failed_cleanup(): running: swapoff /dev/hdb2 GLI: June 04 2006 01:51:03 - DEBUG: install_failed_cleanup(): running: cp /tmp/compile_output.log /tmp/compile_output.log.failed then removing /tmp/compile_output.log
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