Bug 78903 – Very aggrevating problem with my AMD64 install! GRUB related!?

• Product: Gentoo Release Media
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description sub-zero 2005-01-20 22:26:11 UTC]

Hi

I'm trying to install Gentoo on my AMD64. I'm using an ABIT AV8 motherboard.. For some reason, my interner will not work (even though i've done a modprobe via-velocity with no problems, and ifconfig shows my eth0 device just like the install HOWTO says it should!) Yet ping yahoo.com, etc. still fail right away.. I did some looking around on the internet, and one person said it would not work until kernel 2.6.9 or higher was used, so I downloaded 2.6.10 to my windows partition and rebooted into linux, compiled and copied it to /boot (all using my Universal LiveCD)

Now, right when I'm ready to finally try booting into Linux, I see that there is NO GRUB included on this supposed "universal" livecd, and since I am doing this with no network, it is IMPOSSIBLE for me to emerge grub or anything.. I tried downloading a grub tar in windows and unpacking it Linux, but when I run ./configure it says UNKNOWN ARCH x86_64-unknown-pc or something along those lines!! I AM GOING CRAZY. Please respond!!

[Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2005-01-21 04:17:25 UTC]

If ths is your installed system, then it is beyond the control of the livecd team.  Did you copy the distfiles from the universal CD to your /usr/portage/distfiles folder and try to emerge grub?  It has all the necessary distfiles already.  Also, the InstallCD used kernel 2.6.9, so don't beleive everything you hear.

[Comment 2 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2005-03-25 11:25:08 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.