I keep trying to compile glibc +nptl and I finally realized why I'm getting "Illegal Instruction" after bootstrapping! The install CDs need a gentoo2.6 kernel. There's no "it's not ready yet" or "that doesn't matter;" some of us RUN 2.6 and use nptl, and don't want to be hassled with building glibc twice. If it's not ready, it should still be possible to slip it into the livecd anyway so that experienced users can boot it. If you can't fit it on floppy emulation, use hard disk emulation I've done this with grub (10M hard disk image eltorito)
uhh, as far as I know, the x86 and amd64 2004.0 livecds have 2.6 kernels on them. (I built the amd64 livecd, and in fact, it has nothing BUT a 2.6 kernel on it). Also, you won't get an illegal instruction if you build a nptl-enabled glibc and your kernel doesn't support it, it'll actually tell you that your kernel is too old. An illegal instruction happens when you tell your compiler to optimize for a cpu you do not have. For instance, you'll get this if you try to run a binary compiled with -march=pentium4 on an athlon-xp processor, and vica versa .... Closing invalid
that's odd. I'm using the 2004.0 from ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo/releases/x86/2004.0/stages/ (stage 1) with the make.conf (backed up) from my prior installation (this is a reinstall)
