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I failed pretty much at the first hurdle with this guide.
I'm guessing that stage3 has to be unpacked into the target directory ('''/mnt/gentoo'''), but the guide doesn't specify.
Where does '''mirrorselect''' come from? This looks like a Gentoo package but I can't find it for Debian thus can't install it in the [[rescue environment]].
I didn't get any further than that, but some other thoughts:
* What's the point of splitting xvda into '''/boot''' and '''/''' if they are both going to be the same filesystem type ('''ext4''' in this case)? Normally the only point in having a separate '''/boot''' on a VPS is if you want to use something more exotic like '''btrfs''' or [[LVM]] for your root.
* is '''--f-omit-frame-pointers''' a safe '''CFLAG'''?
: — [[User:Strugglers|Andy]]
In response.... Doing this in abstracted way (on a Xen VM at Home prior to moving it to Bitfolk).  You don't need grub.  Mirrorselect is from the Gentoo CD.  Just use something sensible in /etc/portage/make.conf
* SYNC="rsync://rsync.uk.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
* GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.virginmedia.com http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/gentoo http://mirror.qubenet.net/gentoo"
I see little point in having a seperate /boot.  Especially as /boot just contains a kernel and grub config if you don't use genkernel.
--[[User:Enola|Jon Agland]] 22:50, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
Thanks Andy and Jon, I've made some edits in light of what you said. Hopefully it's more correct
--[[User:mattlley|mattlley]] 10:30, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
== Serial console and kernel parameters (to fix console hanging) ==
== Serial console and kernel parameters (to fix console hanging) ==


Revision as of 03:00, 3 February 2021

Serial console and kernel parameters (to fix console hanging)

I had to do the following on my image to get the serial console to work:
echo "hvc0:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -L 9600 hvc0" >> /mnt/etc/inittab
echo hvc0 >> /mnt/etc/securetty

I also needed to add "console=hvc0 xencons=tty" to my list of kernel parameters:
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/xvda1 console=hvc0 xencons=tty

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