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

From: Paul Hartman
Date: Fri Jun 17 2011 - 14:54:53 EST


On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx> 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/
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