I know this isnt a big deal for most people, but the install CD really should have the ability to boot into a SMP kernel. Some motherboards like the intel 440GX(+) series used in VA Linux machines will not work with uniprocessor kernels. It causes the onboard SCSI to not work properly. The easy solution to makeing these machines boot and have working SCSI is of course to use a SMP kernel. This will happen to the machines even if they are running in uniprocessor mode (i.e. with only one cpu inserted). any questions about this, I'm on IRC, just msg me, I'm alron. Thanks
Oh yes, there are 2 gentoo ix86 cd images at http://www.sys-v.com/gentoo/ Both of these are built with SMP compliant kernels. one is gentoo 1.2, the other is gentoo 1.3b Cheers
Is this still an issue with the new live cd?
Is it possible with iso-linux (or whatever live-cd use) to have more than one kernel ?
I'll check if this is a problem with the liveCD's as I am about to install gentoo on a bunch of VALinux Fullon 2200's. as for the iso-linux question, I would be supprised if it did not support more than one kernel. Cheers, Dean (Alron)
Our 1.4_rc1 CDs should all have SMP kernels, and our experimental livecds at http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/experimental/livecd have SMP kernels.
Moving these so we can remove the "Install CD" component from "Gentoo Linux". I apologize to everyone for this spam, but according to the bugzilla developers, this is the only reasonable way to do this.
