I've *almost* finished getting Gentoo going on my laptop. I posted the
following on the Gentoo forums, and have had no takers. I was
wondering if anyone out in tclug-land could help me.
I was happily emerging kde. When I checked back in on it, the laptop
had frozen; I could not get to another screen via ALT-F2, -F3, etc.,
and I couldn't get anything up on the screen at all. Not the emerge,
not a prompt, nothing. So after about ten minutes of waiting I powered
down.
On powering back up, the good news is is that my LCD isn't broken. The
bad news is is that fsck and eth0 are both b0rked beyond belief. At
boot time fsck throws a superblock error and asks for a manual fix. I
don't know enough to do a manual fix. A probably relevant fact is that
it tries to do fsck on /dev/BOOT and then it tells me to do the manual
fix on /dev/ROOT ("R" rather than "B"). I am very unfamiliar with
fsck, so I would appreciate being babied through this.
When this happened it also broke eth0. It appears to boot up
correctly, ifconfig eth0 appears more normal than usual, but upon
opening a browser or pinging any site absolutely nothing happens. Not
a thing. lsmod shows absolutely no modules, and I don't remember
whether I put dhcp support into the kernel directly or via a module,
but either way I have no idea how to check whether I did or didn't, or
how to rectify the situation.
my file system is
/dev/hda1 = boot
/dev/hda2 = storage
/dev/hda3 = swap
hda1 & hda2 are ext3.
I would be eternally grateful to anyone who helps me.
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