Hello, I just bought a via vb7001 mini-itx:
http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/mainboards/motherboards.jsp?motherboard_id=490#spec or http://tinyurl.com/364jg3 I did manage to get Gentoo installed on it, however while everything was compiling I read the docs for the bios to get the CRT and Composite to work. A few ebuilds didn't compile, always the same ones, looking for i486 glibc. Thinking (still not entirely sure, but it seems logical to me) that I used the x86 stage3 rather than the 686 stage3 I decided to do a clean install. So I rebooted it, changed the bios to get CRT and Composite to work (and they do), and to reinstall and it died immediately after loading the kernel from the 2007.0 minimal cd. Tried gentoo-nofb, nada, tried gentoo-nofb noapic, nada. So, I decided that I just screwed something up in the BIOS so did the jumper thing as described in the docs to reset the bios to factory defaults. It booted CRT only. Then I carefully set only the settings that I thought were necessary to get composite and CRT to work. It booted and I got this: http://www.hellburner.com/kernel_oops_VB7001/ while fscking the partition. I thought, ok, so I killed the install, wrong stage3, live and learn, reboot, reinstall. So I rebooted but now whenever I try to mkfs.ext3 it locks up and displays garbage on the screen like a busted atari. So, I tried the pin trick. Same result. mkfs starts up, formats the first 1/3 or so of the partition (60gig) and belches out atari. I've had Gentoo running on my PII and my athlon64 3000+ just fine for quite some time and have reinstalled them several times when the cruft gets out of control. I let it sit for a few hours and then decided to run memtest86. Memtest86 ran for slightly more than a second then I got atari. I don't have anything else that accepts that type of ram so I have no way to isolate it. Any ideas? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
