RE: Gentoo wont start up

Look at
:http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=16113&highlight=login+prompt

I think you have SMP enable in the Kernel and you only have one CPU.

I had the problme and disabling SMP in the kernel fixed it right away.

Gilles


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Jennifer Pinkham
> Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 1:19 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [gentoo-newbies] Gentoo wont start up
>
>
> I cannot get Gentoo to boot all the way up. It always gets to
> "Starting local . . .", runs whatever is in it, then
> stops.  I tried removing the local.start file, but the
> bootup process just stops at the point at which it would
> be running local.start
>
> This is really driving me insane.  I know I'm just an
> inch or two from a login prompt.
>
> I tried someone else's idea of adding "sleep 3" to the
> local.start file, but it made no difference.
>
> ANy ideas on what it is stuck on?  Since I can't
> get as far as a login prompt, I cannot get in to
> see the syslog.
>
> I installed from stage3-i386-pentium2 for 1.4rc1
> after booting from 1.2 cd ( since there is no PCMCIA
> support on the 1.4 disk).  I am running (trying anyway)
> Gentoo on a Dell Latitude P2/400 that is running
> SuSE without any problems at all (seperate partition).
>
> Pls help.
>
> Thanks
> -Jennifer
>
>
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