Comments on: The Gentoo Linux Installation Guide – Part 2

By: Samuel Prouse

Samuel Prouse — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 13:31:28 +0000

Correction, I’ve fixed it. Instead of “chrooting straight away, cd back to the /root directory, then run the Source and Export commands.

By: Samuel Prouse

Samuel Prouse — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 13:27:23 +0000

For me, “chroot”ing /bin/bash doesn’t work.
“chroot: failed to run command ‘/bin/bash’: Exec format error”
There’s nothing so far on the forums to fix this.

By: Manea Florin

Manea Florin — Wed, 08 Mar 2017 06:04:46 +0000

Matthew Salve,

Congratulations for tutorial.

It went well until grub2 install, where grub2 says not found. Just go with simple grub, no crashes, but the reboot will not boot.

I need help because I strive for two weeks with the installation.
Thank you!

By: elie

elie — Sun, 09 Oct 2016 16:46:25 +0000

This step didn’t work for me:

mirrorselect -i -r -o >> /mnt/gentoo/etc/portage/make.conf

From what I read, this command output is meant for a repos.conf file under /etc/portage/repos.conf/.

What did work was the same command but without the “-r” (this also added HTTP and FTP mirror options, not just rsync):

mirrorselect -i -r -o >> /mnt/gentoo/etc/portage/make.conf

If you look at the make.conf file after running mirrorselect with “-r”, you can see that it doesn’t add a valid bash variable, which is what causes the “emerge-webrsync” to fail.

Source: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mirrorselect#Usage

By: MrAli

MrAli — Mon, 21 Dec 2015 08:16:31 +0000

I am looking forward to read part 3.