gentoo linux

[Chris Midkiff]

I installed gentoo last night.  All went well, through configuring grub (I'd
be fine if they offered lilo... New tools, same job).  Anyway, when I
re-booted the system, it came up in grub command mode.  I did a little
reading, and got the following to load my kernel:
# kernel (hd0,0)/bzImage
# boot

The kernel will boot, but refuse to log me on. Gives several 'Read Only
Filesystem' errors while booting, then when I enter a username, returns the
message:
/bin/login: Error while loading shared libraries: libshadow.so.o: Cannot
open shared object file: no such file or directory.

If I <ctl><alt><del> at this point, the system will (eventually) prompt me
for single user (administrative) mode, and let me login with root password.
The df output shows all partitions mounted, and the mount output shows two
entries for /proc, neither one mounted, and everything else mounted rw.

To shorten the question, does anyone have enough experience with grub to
help me out?

Chris Midkiff
----- Original Message -----
From: <MBSmith at dstsystems.com>
To: <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 10:19 AM
Subject: Re: gentoo linux

> FYI, I now have a compact, fast OS up and running.  I had to do a bit of
> deciphering with regard to the Gentoo kernel build instructions, but I
> worked it all out.  I got X up and running using WindowMaker as default
> (I'm going to skip KDE/Gnome - I don't need it and they just slow things
> down tremendously), and it's really nice to have an OS without the bloat.
> The Gentoo 'portage' package system is very nice as well.
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> Verdict: the search continues, and I've only played with it for two days,
> but it looks likes it will be the nicest distro I've used.... so far.
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> Cheers
> Mark Smith
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> MBSmith at dstsystems.com
> Sent by: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
> 01/29/2002 02:57 PM
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>         To:     kclug at kclug.org
>         cc:
>         Subject:        Re: gentoo linux
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> I don't know a lot about it, but I'm one night ahead of you.  I started an
> install last night, and it's an interesting process to say the least.
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> You'll need broadband, as after getting up and running from the boot CD,
> everything is pulled over the network and compiled fresh to suit your
> architecture.  I'm ready to go home now for part two tonight, and build
> the kernel and hopefully get a system up and running, but it shouldn't be
> too much trouble, as the documentation so far has been very clear and
> straight forward.
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> Basically, it's time consuming, but I hopefully it will be a fast,
> bloat-free installation I end up with, so it will be worth it. This review
> has inspired me:
> http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/15/1939255&mode=thread
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> Cheers
> Mark Smith
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> "Chris Midkiff" <chris at datacaptech.com>
> Sent by: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
> 01/29/2002 02:40 PM
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>         To:     "Kclug" <kclug at kclug.org>
>         cc:
>         Subject:        gentoo linux
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> I saw someone on the list saying that they were  running Gentoo linux.
> How do you like it?  Any problems getting it  all up & running?
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> I'm looking into it as well, might just install it  tonight.  What better
> fun on a cold and rainy tuesday...
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> Chris Midkiff
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