Bug 35021

Summary:	booting the 1.4RC4 cdrom dies with the gentoo-smp kernel
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Dave Andruczyk <djandruczyk>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Jason Wever (RETIRED) <weeve>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	blocker	CC:	sparc
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Dave Andruczyk 2003-12-03 17:40:05 UTC

Attempting to boot the 1.4RC4 cdrom dies when "gentoo-smp" is selected at the SILO: prompt.  
the error is "Illegal instruction" and throw me back to the "Ok" Prompt.

the stad "gentoo" choice boots up OK, but of course only uses 1 CPU. (which makes the stage 1 emerge take twice as long)

System is a Sun Ultra 60, 2x360 Mhz UltraSparc2 CPU's, dual Elite-3D framebuffers, 512MB ram.

Comment 1 Sven Blumenstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-12-03 23:20:27 UTC

Did you try the rc5 LiveCD?

Comment 2 Jason Wever (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-12-06 08:33:00 UTC

The gentoo-sparc64-1.4_rc5 ISO image should fix this problem.  Please test and report back if/when you get a chance.

Comment 3 Dave Andruczyk 2003-12-06 21:57:44 UTC

The new RC5 CD boots the SMP kernel properly now.   Tested on a Sun Ultra 60 with dual 360Mhz processors and 512 megs of ram.

On a lighter note:  after the "Gentoo Linux: http://www.gentoo.org" message during init,  your copyright message only goes from 2001-2002.  Isn't this 2003, soon to be 2004?

Comment 4 Sven Blumenstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-12-07 07:48:17 UTC

Thanks for testing. 

Weeve, change the Copyright :)

IMO we should remove the < rc5 LiveCD's from the Mirrors.