This is the last thing on the console: * Network device eth0 eth1 detected, DHCP broadcasting for IP... After about 30 seconds, it reboots. I just used "smp" at the Boot: prompt. This is on an Intel P4 with Hyperthreading, builting ethernet on a Gigabyte GA-81PE1000L motherboard and a (not yet used) Intellinet ethernet card on eth1. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Is there a boot option that will provide more detailed diagnostic output?
There's no boot option... would you try the CD I have at http://dev.gentoo.org/~wolf31o2/releng and see if it solves the problem or not?
It worked. Can I continue with a stage 1 install, or do I need to wait for 2004.2?
You can continue. The only difference between this and 2004.2 will probably be a few more drivers on the CD working... so if it works for you, it's no different than 2004.2 will be.
Couldn't continue, as the smp kernel now does not find my hard disk, a Western Digital 40GB. The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-81PE1000L with an Intel 865PE chipset. The regular gentoo kernel _does_ find the disk.
Do you have a bug open about the hard disk thing? I could have sworn I've seen one...
I don't -- in email you suggested mentioning it here. I don't know what bugzilla category is appropriate for the test distribution, or I'd open a separate bug for this.
That's right... I remember now (see why I told you to post in bugs... *grin*)... Are you using a SATA hard disk? If it is PATA, then it should work perfectly. I definitely want to get this fixed before our next release.
It's an EIDE drive -- based on the rest of the specs I think it's the one listed as WD400BB on the Western Digital site. (I didn't install the drive, and the label on the disk just says EIDE WD400 Caviar.) In know it's 7200rpm with 8M cache, so it's likely the WD400BB or WD400JB. Not SATA, anyway.
I have a similar problem as described above, but I can actually work on the system for about 5 minutes before it reboots. The standard kernel does exactly the same. P4 3Ghz Gigabyte GA-81K1100 - intel 875 chipset 1G Ram Geforce 5800 Seagate SATA 80G drive Seagate IDE 20G drive
Evan, have you tried the CD I listed in Comment #1?
Andrew, my CD doesn't auto load hard disks. That will be fixed in the next (-test4) version of my CD. You need to "modprobe ide-disk" before continuing with your install.
