I tried to install Gentoo 1.4-rc on a spare partition on my dual P-III 1Ghz PC (uses a Epoc D3VA mobo). ISOLINUX started ok, however the installer kernel panic'ed during boot with the messages: Bad EIP value Kernel Panic: Attempted to kill the idle task The same message was generated regardless of the kernel options (I tried various combinations of noapic, acpi=no, nosmp). I'm using the 686 LiveCD, the MD5SUM values check out, so the download/burn appears to be OK.
I forgot to mention that 1.4rc1 previously installed OK.
please try acpi=off (acpi=no is wrong on help message)
Tried that last night (after checking around some other documentation). Still no go however. I'm currently burning the rc2 Pentium3 ISO image and will have a go with that tonight (hopefully) - I was previously using the 686 image. Not sure of the difference since a P-III Coppermine is a 686 AFAIK.
OK I managed to get the kernel to boot using the Pentium3 image and setting acpi=off. The kernel still panics without acpi=off with the same symptoms as before. Additional messages seen on the console immediately before the error: ACPI: Subsystem revision 20021212 PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb350 last bus=1 PCI: Using configuration type 1 ACPI-0263: exxInfo: GPE Block0 defined as GPE0 to GPE15 Hope the above helps to isolate the problem. BTW, ACPI does not cause a kernel panic on Mandrake. It needs some fiddling but I can get it to work!
is this still an issue?
Moving these so we can remove the "Install CD" component from "Gentoo Linux". I apologize to everyone for this spam, but according to the bugzilla developers, this is the only reasonable way to do this.
