Summary: | Inability to bring up network with gentoo-grp 1.4_rc2 cds | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Release Media | Reporter: | John Christian Stoddart (RETIRED) <chiguire> |
Component: | Everything | Assignee: | Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) <drobbins> |
Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
Severity: | major | CC: | livewire, zwelch |
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | x86 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
John Christian Stoddart (RETIRED)
![]() OK, thanks for the info. FYI, I have a sis735 mobo that has the same nic issue. Try turning off apic -- "gentoo noapic" at the boot prompt -- and see if that helps. I'm ccing zwelch on this one, because he may have just had (and fixed) an identical issue. i just tried the noapic noscsi nonet routes with both gentoo-grp-athlon-xp-1.4_rc2 and livecd-basic-x86-2003011400 ... still no luck :/ I actually had to recompile the kernel to exclude IO-APIC support for uniprocessors. SMP kernels seem to transparently include that functionality. It would be interesting to hear the rationale for an smp kernel on the install disk, since on a multiple cpu machine a normal kernel will boot just fine, which I imagine, is ok for installation purposes. If there is no work-around for this, would it be possible to have a normal kernel back, please? slowburnaz posted a solution involving booting from the 1.2 cd, getting networking running and then replacing it with the 1.4_rc2 cd on Sat Jan 18, 2003 5:40 pm in the "8139 problems with 1.4_rc2" thread under "Installing Gentoo" topic. Primitive, but effective :))) if any confirmation is/was required for this issue: I mistakenly left the smp option on a kernel I built for this sis745 mobo machine and I got no network. A single cpu version of the same kernel boots fine. The most recent livecds (for 1.4_rc4) have both single cpu and smp kernels, making this a moot issue, so ... i'm closing this bug. 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. |