Bug 5277 – Non-SMP compliant install CD

• Product: Gentoo Release Media
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Dean Bailey 2002-07-19 17:48:25 UTC]

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

[Comment 1 Dean Bailey 2002-07-19 18:03:07 UTC]

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

[Comment 2 Mark Guertin 2002-10-05 11:10:09 UTC]

Is this still an issue with the new live cd?

[Comment 3 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2002-10-12 12:09:58 UTC]

Is it possible with iso-linux (or whatever live-cd use) to have more than
one kernel ?

[Comment 4 Dean Bailey 2002-11-02 22:20:49 UTC]

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)

[Comment 5 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) 2002-12-22 00:30:19 UTC]

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. 

[Comment 6 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2005-03-25 11:24:52 UTC]

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.