Rebuilding my Gentoo box
mitch @ 2:28 pm on October 27, 2004
It’s been about a year since I originally built my gentoo box at home. I’ve been getting a bunch of dependancy problems with the beta/testing ebuilds of epiphany which have been keeping me from being able to update the system. So instead of trying to figure out what it was doing and why, I opted to reload my / partition because I had just about filled it up anyway (had about 8GB of software in it… and I’ve NEVER had that much before…) so for the last couple days I’ve been building it. I would have been done in 1 and a half days however I ran into problems with my SATA controler again. Seems I removed something from the kernel config I shouldn’t have… I played with it for a day… then finally gave in and admited it was probably something I removed that was making it not work right. So, I removed my .config file and started from scratch, this time only enabling what I knew I needed and removing the floppy block device because I don’t have one. Recompiled and after playing with my root= options from grub, I was able to boot just fine. So last night I emerged gnome and supporting libs, and this morning I emerged evolution2. I should be ready to go when I get home now finally. I will just have to configure X again. (which is really easy) So I should be up and running in a couple of minutes when I get home. Then I’ll go back and lean up my kernel 
