I'd recently messed up my gentoo by being silly, so I d/led the latest iso from which to do my rescue. I would then pick the smp kernel, which would go fine, then I'd mount up my reiser partitions, chroot to my old setup, this would work also. However a total hardware lock up would occur typically within about 2-3 mins. I'm using only scsi hdd's, and there are onboard nics. The nics worked too. It seemed a bit odd, and because of having to drop the power on the box because of the hardware lock up I did end up with some corruption. In the end the kernel which worked fine was the uni-proc, I tried a few other combos, I think it was smp noacpi. I don't remember having this problem with rc4. So I'm not 100% sure if it's a fault with the smp kernel on 1.4 or if it was due to my system being partly broken, but it might be worth having a look into? My hardware is: tyan k7 thunder s2462ng radeon 9k7 pro some scsi hdds with reiser 2x mp2400+ 512Mb ddr Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot off gentoo 1.4 cd & wait till prompt 2. select smp kernel wait till at bash 3. mount my hdds 4. chroot 5. use gentoo for upto a few mins Actual Results: hw will completely lock, typically during disk writing Expected Results: as stated I tried a few of the smp options but in the end the only stable kernel for my setup seemed to be the uni proc, bit annoyed as it corrupted my emerge - the fix seemed to be to delete /var/cache/edb & /usr/portage/distfiles - then emerge started working without corrupting the console font - so having to rebuild system, despite the fact everything is there and working :/ Gentoo still rules :)
I should also mention that this was using a 1.4 xp compiled live/boot cd. Also I got system hangs when attempting a completely fresh install. Again the working solution I found was to use the uni proc core. Having got to stage 3 and compiled my own smp kernel the system seems perfectly happy. I'm not really a dev sort of chap, so can't offer a fix I'm afraid. Please ask if you need anymore details etc Cheers, Guy
2.4.21 had some scsi/smp issues. this should be fixed with newer kernels, and new cds when they arrive
I get the same problem with gentoo 1.4. I'm using 2.4.20-gentoo-r8. If there's a different kernel I should be using, how do I get it ?
To get other kernels, just "emerge <something>-sources" : please see /usr/portage/sys-kernel for choices...
Have you tried a newer livecd to see if you still have problems?
let me know if this is still a problem
Hi, I don't get any probs with home rolled 2.4 or 6 kernels, just the one off the offical 1.4 cd, which seemed odd as I had no issues with the rc's. I tried a 2.6 livecd recently, 20031113 but had completely different problems (usb, apci etc etc) I'll try a 2.4 live cd soon and let you know how I get on, I have a job now, so that's 10hrs of my gentoo time down the pan! HTH
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.
