I have many years setting up, configuring, managing, etc. sun solaris unix systems. I've started supporting some linux servers, but it's red hat so it's pretty brainless, just stick in the disc and click, click, click.
I have an unused pc that I'm playing around with with gentoo linux since it's oriented to people who prefer to configure everything. One of my goals is to be able to make a bootable system on a compact flash card.
But I can't get to first base; I can make a kernel that boots and everything runs by using genkernel, but it's doing everything for me for the kernel configuration. When I use menuconfig, to manually configure the system, the resulting kernel doesn't boot; it starts booting and the kernel boot messages start zipping by but at the same point during the boot process the screen goes black and it freezes.
I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions on how to debug this.