On Tuesday 07 December 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > I have cloned an ~amd64 system which is running happily on a modern > Opteron machine to an old Opteron machine. Unfortunately, I've built > that system with CFLAGS -msse3 and msse4a and USE-flags sse3 sse4a . > Since these instructions are not available on an old Opteron I had > to "emerge -e world" which was (is) a real mess and which has taken 3 > weeks now (not full time, of course) > I've rebuilt the kernel (several times) but I cannot boot the machine. > When I boot with SystemRescueCD and change root, the machine runs > perfectly. > The boot process stops after displaying the messages > Freeing unused kernel memory: 356 k freed > init-early.sh used greatest stack depth: 4376 bytes left > > I have looked at dozens of places which Google returns but I couldn't > find a reason. E.g. the kernel is built with amd-64-generic. > I've re-emerged sys-apps/sysvinit several times but nothing helps. > > So, has anybody a suggestion on what to try out or how to locate the > problem? > > I'm more than grateful for any hints since it could save me another > three weeks work. > > Helmut.
lspci, dmesg, config, make.conf - would all be very helpfull. grub.conf too.
