booting from the basic iso image gentoo-basic-1.4-20030803.iso it is not possible to select a smp kernel in spite of the options visualized on the screen... Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Expected Results: include a smp kernel too
Are you just typing "smp" at the prompt, the kernel is there
i had already tried many combinations of boot params including a bare smp... i have also dowloaded (from ftp.snt.utwente.nl) the iso image gentoo-basic-1.4-20030806.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 83116032 Aug 7 07:01 gentoo-basic-1.4-20030806.iso with md5sum 39b9481163ae7489f77e1d817fa03153 gentoo-basic-1.4-20030806.iso when i mount the iso image with # mount -o ro -o loop -t iso9660 gentoo-basic-1.4-20030806.iso /mnt/loop the contents of the isolinux directory are # ls -alt /mnt/floppy/isolinux total 8117 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 2048 Aug 7 06:59 boot.cat drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 2048 Aug 7 06:56 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Aug 7 06:56 . -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 410 Aug 7 06:56 add.msg -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 216 Aug 7 06:56 boot.msg -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 106 Aug 7 06:56 boot1.msg -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1351804 Aug 7 06:56 gentoo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8479 Aug 7 06:56 gentoo.lss -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1183 Aug 7 06:56 help.msg -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1611067 Aug 7 06:56 initrd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5210907 Aug 7 06:56 initrd.1024 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9404 Aug 7 06:56 isolinux.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 865 Aug 7 06:56 isolinux.cfg -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 80324 Aug 7 06:56 memtest the smp kernel is not there! the smp-related lines of isolinux.cfg are label smp kernel smp append vga=791 initrd=initrd2.1024 acpi=off root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc nomce label smp-acpi kernel smp append vga=791 initrd=initrd2.1024 acpi=on root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc nomce label smp-nofb kernel smp append initrd=initrd2 acpi=off root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc nomce
I'll confirm this as well, I had an outage on a production gentoo server early thursday morning. I grabbed "basic" and burned it to take with me to boot off, and it would boot the machine. There was no "smp" kernel, and the normal kernel would panic scanning PCI IRQs so that didn't work either. Had to go back home and burn an much larger "x86" CD, which did work when I used the smp kernel on it. Basic should just mean no stage tarballs, but it should still include viable kernels for an smp box IMHO.
yes, some of the livecds were somehow created without a smp kernel, bad mistake.. This WILL be fixed in next release
