I am attempting my first gentoo install to reside with FC3 and XP.
The first time I went through, doing a stage 3 install and making my own kernel, everything seemed to work ok untill i rebooted, grub looked very wierd, really garbled, and I couldn't boot anything from it, FC, XP, or gentoo, and I couldn't read the error because of the way it was garbled. so I decided to just start over.
This time, I decided to use genkernel since everything seems to work ok from the liveCD. I am not sure of all of the options I have to have, but I do know some that I need and some that I don't for sure. So I did
Code:
genkernel --menuconfig all
and made adjustments to what I knew for sure I needed, and removing what I knew for sure that I did not need. Once finished in menuconfig, it says "Compiling bzImage" or something similar and just sits there.
Now i know it would take longer to compile this time, but my custom one toke less than 30 minutes. I let the genkernel sit there for over an hour and a half and it still just sat there with the same message.
How long should a genkernel take? Perhaps I could try my own kernel again? I could try to see what I needed, but there is no lspci nor /proc/pci.
The whole portage system and emerge really intrigues me, and I thought that I finally had enough knowledge to try it out. Maybe I was wrong...
I had to hard reboot and get back into windows, but I should be able to boot the liveCD and chroot to start where I left off.
Any suggestions are welcome, and if this thread is more appropriate in another forum, I would ask a mod to please move it.
Thanks
-Nathan