Markusis's Journal: Well, I got gentoo installed.

So, I finally got gentoo installed. I'm using version 1.4...kinda. The official release of 1.4 isn't out yet. But, my whole system has been compiled with gcc 3.2 using some crazy optimizations. Everything seems pretty stable. I'm having some problems with sound (alsa) and I experience some crashes due to APM being messed. I just recompiled the kernel and I'm hoping that upon reboot I won't have the problems anymore. Getting X configured was a chore. But, now that I got it going in gentoo, I'm pretty sure that I could do it with debian as well. I think I might stay with gentoo for a little while. I don't really need it to be source based. But, I really like having a package management system that has automatic dependency resolution. I'm going back to school in 2 days. Hopefully I'll be able to keep my server going while I'm there. Of course the server will stay at the house. It should be fun remotely administering a server for 10 months out of the year. We'll see...

GRUB problems

[Markusis]

So, just to recap on my problems from the previous post. I got GRUB to work by installing it on hda. This way GRUB doesn't get confused about which drive is where. I'm thinking about making a boot disk using grub that just passes the boot process off to a CD. This way you could boot a machine off of a CD even with a BIOS that doesn't support it. Theoretically this should work, but it gave me some hassles. Bah.