Re: New Gentoo install on Intel Z68/i7-2600K system hangs after VFS:Mounted root...

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
>>   We ran memtest86 for an hour. Completed a couple of passes with no
>> errors. Will run more later but no obvious memory problems seen.
>>
>>   I installed 2.6.39-gentoo-r1. No change from 2.6.38-gentoo-r6.
>> Stops at the same place.
>>
>>   I tried 2.6.39-gentoo-r1 with no kernel options, and with all
>> combinations of nousb and acpi=off. All 4 attempts quit at the same
>> place.
>
> Check out this forum post, this person's bootup seems to stop in the
> same place as yours. He was able to fix it by booting off a liveCD and
> manually creating device nodes. Maybe it's nothing, but probably worth
> looking at just in case it might help.
>
> https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/gentoo-87/booting-stops-after-kernel-starts-883031/
>

Argh!! I remember a post like that on the Gentoo list. I'll check if
out and give it a try.

Thnaks,
Mark