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Bug 36441 - 1.4 live cd dies on dual G4 - 800 at bootup
Summary: 1.4 live cd dies on dual G4 - 800 at bootup
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: PPC Linux
: High blocker (vote)
Assignee: Pieter Van den Abeele (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2003-12-24 13:01 UTC by Tom Gall (RETIRED)
Modified: 2006-02-04 06:04 UTC (History)
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Description Tom Gall (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-12-24 13:01:31 UTC 
using the 1.4 live cd for the g4, the kernel dies at startup.

The last set of messages are prom_print messages (sorry no screen scrap available but you kernel types will know what I'm talking about). 

I would "guess" that the kernel isn't built SMP and/or support for the radeon 9000 isn't built in. I have a hard time thinking the later would be true.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot from 1.4 live cd
2. hot flaming death
3.

Actual Results:  
smoking crater....

Expected Results:  
boot into live cd's ramdisk
Comment 1 Chad Metcalf 2004-02-08 20:19:58 UTC 
The same thing happens on my PowerBook (15.2in, 847MHz G4, 512 ram). I also cannot read the error before the screen blanks.
Comment 2 David Holm (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-02-15 07:01:58 UTC 
Lets nag Pieter about it ;)
Comment 3 Tom Gall (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-02-16 13:20:12 UTC 
As a datapoint the 2004.0 livecd does get further, in that it's up to init before it freezes hard. SMP support is obviously off with the g3g4.iso
Comment 4 Pieter Van den Abeele (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-02-16 15:08:52 UTC 
For 2004.0/ppc I'll put both an SMP and a non-SMP kernel on the cds. This wasn't possible with the ppc livecd scripts, but genkernel/catalyst has made this possible.
Comment 5 Pieter Van den Abeele (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-03-03 14:42:18 UTC 
2004.0 has SMP support.