35021 – booting the 1.4RC4 cdrom dies with the gentoo-smp kernel

Bug 35021 - booting the 1.4RC4 cdrom dies with the gentoo-smp kernel

Summary: booting the 1.4RC4 cdrom dies with the gentoo-smp kernel

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	High blocker (vote)
Assignee:	Jason Wever (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2003-12-03 17:40 UTC by Dave Andruczyk
Modified:	2006-02-04 06:05 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Dave Andruczyk 2003-12-03 17:40:05 UTC

Attempting to boot the 1.4RC4 cdrom dies when "gentoo-smp" is selected at the SILO: prompt.  
the error is "Illegal instruction" and throw me back to the "Ok" Prompt.

the stad "gentoo" choice boots up OK, but of course only uses 1 CPU. (which makes the stage 1 emerge take twice as long)

System is a Sun Ultra 60, 2x360 Mhz UltraSparc2 CPU's, dual Elite-3D framebuffers, 512MB ram.

Comment 1 Sven Blumenstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-12-03 23:20:27 UTC

Did you try the rc5 LiveCD?

Comment 2 Jason Wever (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-12-06 08:33:00 UTC

The gentoo-sparc64-1.4_rc5 ISO image should fix this problem.  Please test and report back if/when you get a chance.

Comment 3 Dave Andruczyk 2003-12-06 21:57:44 UTC

The new RC5 CD boots the SMP kernel properly now.   Tested on a Sun Ultra 60 with dual 360Mhz processors and 512 megs of ram.

On a lighter note:  after the "Gentoo Linux: http://www.gentoo.org" message during init,  your copyright message only goes from 2001-2002.  Isn't this 2003, soon to be 2004?

Comment 4 Sven Blumenstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-12-07 07:48:17 UTC

Thanks for testing. 

Weeve, change the Copyright :)

IMO we should remove the < rc5 LiveCD's from the Mirrors.