Am 08.08.2013 10:43, schrieb Daiajo Tibdixious: > I got new hardware for a home desktop a few days ago. > Downloaded install-amd64-minimal-20130801.iso and am still booting > from that cd as hard drive boot fails. > > I turned on logging in /etc/rc.conf, but no /var/log/rc.log is produced. > The disks are mounted but readonly. I guess from this the problem is > occurring before the root partition is mounted. > > I only have 4 partitions: boot, swap, root, and home. Since everything > important is on the root partition, I'm not using an initramfs. > > I have many times tried to catch the error by watching the screen, but > it scrolls past way to fast. > > The last part of the boot messages before things go crazy is > "Switching to clocksource TSC". > > I've been reading up on grub, but don't see anyway to get more info on > what is going wrong. > > If I boot from the cd and chroot to the disk, everything seems to work > fine. /boot is ext2 fs and this is my grug.conf: > default 0 > timeout 20 > splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz > > title Gentoo Linux 3.8.13 > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/3.8/13-0/bzImage root=/dev/sda3 >
and what is happening?
