Using the gentoo-grp-athlon_1.4_rc2.iso image (and any of the 3 stages on it), I am unable to install Gentoo on an Athlon 1300 (socket A, Thunderbird). The installation procedure invariably hangs the whole machine during the first few seconds of a make; and we're talking a hard freeze here, needing a hard reset. The 'emerge sync' and other setup procedures always work fine, but as soon as that first 'emerge -u world' begins, a hang is guaranteed within moments. Falling back to livecd-basic_1.4_rc1.iso and stage3- i686_athlon.tbird_1.4_rc1.tar.bz2, the problem does not appear. I suspect some sort of setting / optimization / tweak in the rc2 LiveCD kernel, but have no direct evidence to corroborate that. Upon failure, there is no message to terminal -- no oops, etc. -- that would be helpful. Furthermore, the system is not overclocked or otherwise tweaked: Athlon 1300 Thunderbird CPU Abit KT-7 mboard 768 MB RAM 60 GB Maxtor UltraDMA-4 HDD Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot rc2 LiveCD 2. Follow Gentoo install procedures 3. Machine hangs after step 14, "Starting from stage3" Actual Results: The machine froze at some random but fairly immediate place during 'make'
please try -rc4, gcc kernel opts removed
Please test with the latest LiveCD and reopen this bug if the problem persists.
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.
