When I boot smp and smp-nofb, the screen locks up (after a couple of verticle color bars are displayed) and I have to do a hard reboot. I did not have this problem with 2004.0. I have an HP ProLiant ML350 using the cciss driver for my raid controller card and the broadcom tigon3 nic. Additionally, I have to modprobe cciss and tigon3 from the gentoo-nofb kernel. I didn't have to do this with 2004.0 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. turn the computer on with 2004.1 in the cdrom 2. select smp or smp-nofb kernel 3. Actual Results: screen locks up, have to hard reboot. sometimes verticle color bars on the left side of the screen. Expected Results: kernel loads, installation process begins...
I am having the same problem. I am a new user of Gentoo (this morning) but experienced with Linux. The gentoo kernel seems to be fine, but the smp and smp-nofb kernels get as far as: Loading smp ............................................. Loading smp.igz ....................... Then the screen goes blank and the system seems to be doing nothing. (I haven't seen any vertical colour bars though.) I am trying to install on a new Viglen LX260 server with an Intel SE7501BR2 motherboard and dual Xeon 2.4GHz processors.
*me too* Installing on a Supermicro P4DP6 board, running a single Xeon. The machine doesn't actually freeze, as entering commands blindly gets a response. For instance after setting up my NIC (*cough* bug 49230 ;) *cough*), setting a password, and starting sshd, I can ssh to the machine. It seems to be limited to being a video problem...
same here. I don't know what is causing this, but I suspect the livecds kernel config. especially frambuffer drivers. vesafb should work for everyone.
I think I know what's causing it. I was actually stubborn enough to (with a blank screen thus no visual feedback) start the network with a static IP address, start up sshd, and ssh into the box which is how I discovered at least some of the problems (perhaps not all). I mentioned this on the gentoo-user list on May 1 with the minimal liveCD, and now I'm trying again with the universal liveCD and I have the same results. Bottom line, one cannot use the SMP kernel on the 2004.1 liveCDs. Some probable reasons: (1) the kernel is v2.6 and the only modules available on the iso image are for the 2.4.(25?) kernel. (2) it's impossible to use the SMP kernel at all from the console because it seems to lack framebuffer support and plain old VGA console support. As soon as the kernel is read, my screen blanks out and doesn't come back. (3) maybe others?
same here!! and i buy the CD! :( with smp/2004.0 i have no problem, but smp/2004.1 blanks the screen, i tried many options (-nofb, nodetect, nohotplug, etc) but the result is always the same. My HW is a Dell 8200
I am working to ensure that the next release works out-of-the-box with SMP machines. I have several myself and have started the livecd herd to take the lead in ensuring QA on the livecds.
Did 2004.2 fix this for everyone?
Well, I got no response. That and we've had 2 releases since the original bug was posted.
