**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Wed Jan 04 02:59:57 2006 Jan 04 09:52:38 Hrhr @topic... where can I find end-user discussion then? ;) Jan 04 11:19:52 <[g2]> Scytale what questions do you have ? Jan 04 11:32:44 [g2]: I've installed OpenSlug, used "turnup disk" to tell it to boot from a USB hard disk, installed Gentoo on that disk (according to http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Linksys_NSLU2) and hoped the best. What happens is that when I reboot, I hear the disk getting mounted, and then it hangs. "/.recovery" gets created. How can I view some log or something to see what's wrong? Jan 04 11:34:52 <[g2]> Scytale you want to run Gentoo on the slug ? Jan 04 11:36:26 <[g2]> As far as seeing what's happending you've got several options Jan 04 11:36:34 Yes Jan 04 11:36:51 <[g2]> Are you planning on compiling a bunch on there ? Jan 04 11:37:21 I don't know yet. Most likely not. Jan 04 11:37:44 <[g2]> Umm Gentoo is a "from Source" distro Jan 04 11:38:05 <[g2]> are you planning on replacing the stage3's every so often ? Jan 04 11:38:17 I know what Gentoo is, I'm using it for years. Jan 04 11:38:54 Please don't tell me about the time it's going to take to compile, rather give me some hints on what I did wrong :) Jan 04 11:39:25 <[g2]> I'll be brief Jan 04 11:39:31 What OpenSlug does is chroot into that image and try to boot it, right? Jan 04 11:39:53 <[g2]> look at the linuxrc Jan 04 11:40:15 <[g2]> pull the external disk and boot to the flash partition and you can see it Jan 04 11:40:39 <[g2]> turnup controls how it pivot_roots Jan 04 11:40:47 <[g2]> which scripts are run Jan 04 11:40:54 <[g2]> You've got several options Jan 04 11:41:29 <[g2]> 1) investigate the linuxrc scripts which really control how things happens. They are small and pretty straight forward Jan 04 11:41:51 <[g2]> 2) Enable netconsole to see some stuff as it happens Jan 04 11:42:01 <[g2]> 3) Solder on serial and have a real console Jan 04 11:42:44 <[g2]> 4) (shameless plug) Get a Loft which is a 533Mhz IXP425 with 64MB and tons of extras that I'm selling which is much more suited to Gentoo Jan 04 11:43:17 <[g2]> Do you know vaiper ? Jan 04 11:43:47 <[g2]> Scytale have you under-declocked your slug ? Jan 04 11:44:08 <[g2]> The default slugs run at 133 Jan 04 11:44:48 I've heard about vapier, I might even be sharing a channel with him, but I don't know him personally. Jan 04 11:45:18 <[g2]> He's been running Gentoo on the slug for most of a year Jan 04 11:45:21 I know that the Slug is under-clocked, but I want to waite until my system is actually running before changing that Jan 04 11:45:37 <[g2]> this a gentoo dev and he's getting a Loft Jan 04 11:46:02 Investigating linuxrc sounds good, how would I enable netconsole? Jan 04 11:46:15 <[g2]> it's on the nslu2-linux wiki Jan 04 11:47:38 okay, I'll have a look at the scripts and the netconsole, and maybe I'll talk to vapier. Thanks for your time, if I can't figure it out I'll be back ;) Jan 04 11:48:08 <[g2]> np. Jan 04 14:21:52 !seen mgoebl Jan 04 16:22:28 rwhitby: thx for all your help, i finished building the image and the upload went successful Jan 04 16:23:01 same goes out to all others who helped of course Jan 04 16:23:04 CervAnteZ: no problem. Anything else you can add or clarify on the wiki in response to your experiences? Jan 04 16:23:30 (i.e. can someone now follow the LeDebianSlug page step-by-step and be guaranteed success? Jan 04 16:23:58 rwhitby: well, the wiki is quite unaccessible and badly organised, hard to find any information when you need it Jan 04 16:24:50 rwhitby: one thing i can tell the dev's though, both my hdd led's dont work anymore after the update Jan 04 16:25:01 CervAnteZ: yep, and it's up to people such as yourself to improve that for others who follow you. The trouble is that those that preceeded you didn't take on that responsibility correctly ... Jan 04 16:25:32 yes, the leds are not supported under debian - we need new userspace applications in debian to do that. Jan 04 16:25:55 rwhitby: really? didn't notice that before with the old firmware :-) Jan 04 16:26:10 which old firmware? Jan 04 16:26:23 rwhitby: 2.7 Jan 04 16:26:31 openslug or debian? Jan 04 16:26:48 rwhitby: well, both Jan 04 16:27:00 openslug would have worked when booted to the openslug rootfs Jan 04 16:27:09 i guess it does then Jan 04 16:27:12 but the leds would not have worked when booted to the debian rootfs Jan 04 16:27:29 are there any people working on the leds code? Jan 04 16:27:45 not at the moment - they are a low priority item Jan 04 16:28:04 i'd like to try a few things, could you point me to the current leds code maintainers? Jan 04 16:28:14 and there is a major change to the kernel leds subsystem in the works Jan 04 16:28:45 there is no such maintainer at the moment Jan 04 16:28:51 anyway, I gotta go. Jan 04 16:29:00 okies, thx for your time **** ENDING LOGGING AT Thu Jan 05 02:59:59 2006