I am trying to install 2004.0 on a new Compaq SR1010NX computer. It has a 2.8Ghz Celeron processor, 512Mb ram, Intel 845G graphics card (built in), Ethernet (not sure of chipset - again, built in), 40Gig hd. I get the prompt to specify the kernel to boot and type in 'Gentoo'. It loads the kernel and starts loading 'gentoo.igz' and them immediately reboots. I have tried adding 'noprobe', 'noacpi', 'noscsi', and 'noapm' and just about every combination of that as well. It still does the exact same thing... reboots after loading (or in the process of loading) the gentoo.igz file. I have also tried burning a new CD with a newly downloaded image, with the same results. I know the hardware is capable of running Linux, I have Slackware 9.1 installed on it right now, I just want to install Gentoo on it so I can be consistent with my other 2 Gentoo machines. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot up 2004.0 cd 2. type in 'gentoo' or 'gentoo-nofb' at the boot prompt 3. watch the computer reboot Actual Results: computer reboots 100% of the time. Expected Results: booted up to a setup environment
Have you tried to run the smp-kernel (i.e "smp nosmp")?
No, the only kernels listed (by pressing F1) are: gentoo and gentoo-nofb. While I have installed Gentoo on 3 other machines, I'm not experienced enough with 2004.0 to know what other kernel options exist on the boot cd image. I'll try smb and nosmb and report back.
I wasn't entirely sure if there was a kernel named 'smb' and/or 'nosmb' so I tried the following combinations: smb <- no kernel found nosmb <- no kernel found gentoo smb <- same results, reboot while loading gentoo.igz gentoo nosmb <- again, same results. I am able to progress finally though... I found an old 1.4.1rc1 cd and that one seems to work fine. The only thing I cannot do is the 'mirrorselect'. I'm compiling the new kernel now.
SMP, not SMB. SMB is a protocol, SMP is for shared-memory multiple processors.
I actually knew that. The SMB resulted from from a few low-carbohydrate beers and alot of frustration. I really had tried SMP, not SMB.
acpi problem then? try gentoo acpi=on, gentoo acpi=off, and the same for the smp kernels. let us know which one boots.
I am getting the exact same problem, but what's differnet is the following: it boots fine off the liveCD (2004.1) with gentoo, or smp. but after compiling the system and trying to reboot with 2.6.7-r11, or 2.6.7 vanilla, or even 2.6.5 (same kernel version as liveCD), following happens: i come to grub prompt, hit enter, Decompresing Linux... then it reboots.. it always does this. i've tried many different kernel configs and versions. Here is my cpuinfo: processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 3 model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz stepping : 4 cpu MHz : 2802.544 cache size : 1024 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 1 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 5 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe pni monitor ds_cpl cid bogomips : 5521.40 i'm not quite sure about the mainboard, but it's this system from HP http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/at/de/sm/WF06b/34511-968693-968693-968693-4502723-4502729-8318273.html I've tried acpi=on and acpi=off, without luck. If I can give any further information, let me know. G
What if you use the kernel config from the livecd directly? Boot smp, mount your drive in /mnt/gentoo, mount your /boot in /mnt/gentoo/boot then run: zcat /proc/config.gz > /mnt/gentoo/usr/src/linux/.config chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash env-update && source /etc/profile make oldconfig make && make modules_install cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot
I wish i could do that actually.. already wanted to try that, but unfortunately, the SMP kernel of the 2004.0 (sorry, mistyped that in the last post), doesn't contain the options to make the /proc/config or /proc/config.gz and the gentoo kernel is 2.4.. so that won't really work either..
Ok, noticed that 2004.2 was out (which runs 2.6.7-r11) and acutally has the /proc/config.gz for a change in SMP.. so compiled the kernel with that .config, but during make modules_install, i get tons of warnings: modules needs unknown symbol blah anyway, since these warnings shouldn't really bother the decompressing of the kernel, I copied the kernel over, change grub.conf, rebooted.. and oddly enough, it reboots too ;/.. so no luck. Maybe somethin went wrong during install?
...but it boots fine from the LiveCD?
yes! starting to think something went wrong during installation.. but almost can't believe that.. i've setup gentoo a couple times, also on amd64.. all work fine. hd is 40GB, simple partition layout according to the handbook /dev/hda3 is root /dev/hda1 is boot /dev/hda2 is swap.. really clueless now ;/
Ok quite odd.. i installed the system from stage3 for pentium4 now, and everything worked.. hmm.. somethin must have gone wrong during installation.
Sounds like it... I'm going to close this. If Randall ever returns from the bayond, he can REOPEN if he is still having trouble.
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.
