Hi all,
It's exam time again and that means procastination time - as such I recently
attempted to build gentoo again on my O2 using kumbas netboot kernel :
ip32-r5k-20050128.img
and the boot command of bootp():root=/dev/ram0
This has REALLY not gone well thus far.
1) Nano wont open, returning the message: cannot open libncurses something
something .so
2) Fdisk is behaving rather strangely only allowing me to build partitions
backwards ie from 1016 (4.5 gb disk) down. If I attempt to make a partition
from 1 - 100 ,say, the next time I ask for a new partition it gives the the
start point of (1-0) and refuses any further input!!!!
3) After working in the stupid backwards way to get myself a boot,swap and main
partition, with of course the SGI volhdr and volume it now refuses to mount.
The command
mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/gentoo
(mounting my main partition on the gentoo area)
it returns a file or directory not found error, even though fdisk printout shows
that sda3 exits.
Any help would be greatly appreciated as this kernel supports so many more
things than the previous version I had used.
Duncan Harrison.
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gentoo-mips@gentoo.org mailing list
It's exam time again and that means procastination time - as such I recently
attempted to build gentoo again on my O2 using kumbas netboot kernel :
ip32-r5k-20050128.img
and the boot command of bootp():root=/dev/ram0
This has REALLY not gone well thus far.
1) Nano wont open, returning the message: cannot open libncurses something
something .so
2) Fdisk is behaving rather strangely only allowing me to build partitions
backwards ie from 1016 (4.5 gb disk) down. If I attempt to make a partition
from 1 - 100 ,say, the next time I ask for a new partition it gives the the
start point of (1-0) and refuses any further input!!!!
3) After working in the stupid backwards way to get myself a boot,swap and main
partition, with of course the SGI volhdr and volume it now refuses to mount.
The command
mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/gentoo
(mounting my main partition on the gentoo area)
it returns a file or directory not found error, even though fdisk printout shows
that sda3 exits.
Any help would be greatly appreciated as this kernel supports so many more
things than the previous version I had used.
Duncan Harrison.
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