Where have i went wrong?


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I have been trying to install gentoo on my pc, i have followed all the instructions in the handbook and after the bit where you finally reboot the system, i get the grub screen up, select the standard option and i get a flash of text scrolling up too fast to see then a blank screen then after a few seconds the blank screen changes to the following:

linuxscreen.jpg

the green lines grow down a bit then stop, it seems like the system is loading behind as if i blindly login and issue a reboot the computer does restart.

i have also tried the recovery option but it also fails to work, and displays the same screen.

I have tried recompiling the kernel using the genkernel, this works and will boot up, so im guessing the issue is with my kernel configuration.

What should i be looking for in there to sort this?

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Well without some details of what exact hardware your trying to run this on..

Does the liveCD boot?

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Live CD boots and so does the kernel made by genkernel

Hardware is:

AMD Geode LX800 500MHz

AMD CS5536

RealTek 8139 network chipset

In menuconfig i have selected:

Processor Family: Geode GX/LX

Under ATA drivers i have: AMD and nVidia IDE support, AMD CS5535 chipset support

Under network i have: RealTek RTL-8129/8130/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter suppor

Under Graphics i have: AMD Geode family framebuffer support, AMD Geode LX framebuffer support

Under sound drivers: CS5535/CS5536 Audio

Under Bus Options: Geode Multi-Function General Purpose Timer (MFGPT) events

Under I2C Hardware Bus support: Geode ACCESS.bus support

Under character drivers: AMD CS5535/CS5536 GPIO (Geode Companion Device)

I have just added these to the default config, not removed anything this time (incase i did need any of the default stuff)

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Try selecting only VESA VGA graphics support in the "Graphics support -> support for framebuffer devices" section. You'll probably only be using that to set a custom resolution on the console anyway.

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