Howto Boot A Gentoo

[Jinidog]

Hello,

I spend the last two weeks building a gentoo for my poodle. (using uclibc)
However, I cannot start the X-Server, because of this error:

Fatal server error:
xf86EnableIOPorts: Failed to set IOPL for I/O

This could be because the gentoo system is only a chroot into a NFS-directory.
So I need to login into this system and as I cannot get ssh to do this for me (and I do have to know that later), I want to boot it as normaly the gpe-openzaurus 1.5.3 is booted.

Perhaps I can put it into /etc/fstab and mount it as root instead of mtdblock2.
I could put the gentoo on a 1 GB SD-card if it is not possible to boot a system mounted over NFS.

Thanks for any advice.


Thanks for any advice.

[adf]

Hello,

I spend the last two weeks building a gentoo for my poodle.

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Did it strike you what an odd thing this is to have said?


I have wondered about gentoo for the Z... I can't help though not having tried it.

[Jinidog]

What's your question?
I have a working installation in a chrooted NFS directory.
It might be still a long way to make it work with all the zaurus hardware, but it works.

[adf]

I have a lot of them.

is the envireonment self contained on the Z, that is if you walk away from your nfs do you have a useable Z?

what is the interface? x/gtk?

is it reasonably snappy?. say compared to xqt?

does emerge actually put useable software on the z?  I mean if I say.. emerge gaim for example, will i walk away with a working gaim on my zaurus?

have i completely misunderstood the concept?

I had thought Z-gentoo died... is it active?

[Jinidog]

This is no Gentoo for Zaurus install, it is a embedded uclibc stage1 that compiled the necessary software.
This is more a experiment and far from working. I wrote a howto, until now it leads until emerge system.
The devs say, that they want to review it and it might become a guide of how to bring gentoo on the zaurus.

But as I said, the X-Server is not working and I don't know how to bring gentoo on the zaurus that it is bootable.
Mostly portage is working as on the x86, it produces arm code optimised for xscale.
There are a few flaws, but most of the packages work.

[adf]

sounds more demanding than i am up for atm.  Like I said though..  I thought this was dead... I'll keep more of an eye on it if it is making headway