I did a stage 2 gentoo install on my AthlonXP 2400+, and everything seemed to work out just fine. However, when I rebooted into the real system it complained about "Unresolved symbol _mmx_memcpy" when inserting the modules for my NIC (RTL8139 based) and for the USB modules. After much fiddling around with kernel config options someone suggested that I make mrproper instead of make clean that I had done up to that point. After having made mrproper I reconfiged my kernel, compiled and rebooted and everytihng worked just fine. I was unable to acertain exactly -what- genkernel goofed up, but it sure did mess something up. I have seen this problem duplicated on a stage 3 install with the same NIC chipset, and on an install that I believe to be without this particular NIC chipset. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run genkernel, no options. 2. Install kernel. 3. Reboot. Actual Results: Kernel complains about "Undefined symbol _mmx_memcpy", and NIC & USB modules fail to work. Expected Results: Make a working kernel. My hardware setup (if for some reason or the other you need it): -Epox EP-8K9A mobo -512 MB PC2100 DDR-SDRAM -RTL 8139 based NIC -Asus GeForce FX gfx card
must be using an old version of genkernel or something, it always runs mrproper by default as of 3.x
