On Fri, 2013-08-09 at 09:07 +1000, Daiajo Tibdixious wrote: > Logged in after failed boot. > /home & /boot are mounted, but nothing in them when I ls. > ls of / shows all the normal things there. > > While logged in, I'm still getting boot messages, where USB devices, > eg the mouse, disconnect and reconnect. > > There are a ridiculous number of sd devices in /dev. sda, sdb, sdc, > sdd all go to 15. sda is the hard drive, sdb/sdc for USB devices. > Never had sdd. > > Did see some errors, notably "cannot mount /run" bad superblock or > something like that. Its hard to scroll back with USB messages > constantly appearing, half a screenful each time. > > On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 6:40 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann > <volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > 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? > > > Does kernel config have: CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT=y CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y CONFIG_FSNOTIFY=y CONFIG_DNOTIFY=y CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER=y CONFIG_NET=y CONFIG_PROC_FS=y CONFIG_SIGNALFD=y CONFIG_SYSFS=y CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is not set CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH="" CONFIG_BLK_DEV_BSG=y CONFIG_TMPFS=y CONFIG_TMPFS_POSIX_ACL=y CONFIG_TMPFS_XATTR=y
also this problem frequently results from graphics support attempting to invoke kms support with: modules instead of builtins with frame buffers enabled with the radeon driver enabled without building in appropriate firmware
