[gentoo-user] Installation problems on AMD64 box
I use Ubuntu for every day but as my box has a spare 40GB hard disk I decided to have a go at installing Gentoo on it for evaluation Using the handbook documentation for AMD64 I burned a basic installation CD, booted it up, and followed the instructions for installation on the spare drive. Everything went fine; I partitioned the disk with a 32MB ext2 sector for /boot, a 512MB swap sector, 10GB for root and the rest for /home. I had no trouble with the network, successfully downloaded everything that needed to be downloaded and unpacked it, successfully chrooted to the new system, and reached the compiling the kernel section without a glitch. And the then the trouble began. I emerged gentoo-sources, and it ran fine for about five minutes, and then (choosing the moment when I decided all was well to go and make a pot of tea, the system rebooted itself. I booted up the disk again and went through the chrooting process. When I went to emerge gentoo-sources again, emerge looked for the dependencies and then the whole system froze solid with one of those this is NOT our fault kernel panic messages. Not to worry. I can be very patient on occasions. I cold booted the box and started all over again, deleting the new partitions and going through the instructions from the beginning incase I'd missed anything. Again I got to emerging gentoo-sources. Again it ran for about five minutes before the system rebooted itself. Again I went through the chrooting process and went to emerge gentoo-sources. Again the system froze. I rebooted and rechrooted and tried it again. Same result. I'm reluctant to believe that this is down to an arbitrary hardware fault, since everything else works fine. It does seem to have something to do with emerging gentoo-sources. Is anybody able to rescue this maiden in distress and throw some light on my problem? Rosie signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Installation problems on AMD64 box
On Friday 28 November 2008 11:56:52 Iain Buchanan wrote: ah, who says Ubuntu isn't good for anything? Good to see you're trying a real distribution :) /flame Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore... Typically now you'd prove me wrong and say how you've been using dieHardLinux for years... anyhoo welcome! First tasted Slackware about 12 years ago. Long before that I used to make VAXes sing and dance. We'll draw a veil over the MVS/TSO/CICS years, except to say that I know bloated systems when I see them. [snip excellent problem report] blush No offence, but I doubt an Ubuntu install would tax your resources as much as compiling your system as you have just done. No, one can have it up and running in the time it takes to compile, say, Firefox from scratch. Sometimes I like a quiet life. Other times I like to live on the edge :) but girls don't exist on tha interwebz! So it seems - look at all those pizza boxes and old beer cans all over the floor. Rosie -- CURRENTLY READING: The Rainbow, by DH Lawrence Pie'n'Mushies: Barrow Day-by-Day http://pieandmushies.wordpress.com I am not young enough to know everything signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Installation problems on AMD64 box
On Friday 28 November 2008 12:55:06 Andrea Momesso wrote: An easy way to find out if this is a gentoo related problem is to avoid using the livecd. You can easily chroot into the gentoo drive from your ubuntu installation and try to emerge gentoo-sources from there. Ok, I've done this. gentoo-sources emerged without any problems. I've set it compiling a genkernel (if I am convinced by what I get when it's all working, I'll try compiling a custom kernel. It's currently running without mishap. If you still get a failure you can be almost sure this is an hardware problem. I haven't had a problem yet so I can't say anything. I'm going out for a couple of hours later so I'll run a memtest while I'm gone. Rosie -- CURRENTLY READING: The Rainbow, by DH Lawrence Pie'n'Mushies: Barrow Day-by-Day http://pieandmushies.wordpress.com I am not young enough to know everything signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Installation problems on AMD64 box
On Friday 28 November 2008 12:29:23 Florian Philipp wrote: By the way: Can you post some parameters of your system (CPU, age, ...) and tell us, whether you use 64bit or 32bit versions of Ubuntu and Gentoo? I had the box built for me a year ago. Processor is ADM Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+ (two of them) I'm running 64-bit Ubuntu on the main disk and attempting to install ADM64 2008.0 Gentoo PCI listing: 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE Host Bridge 00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE Host Bridge 00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE Host Bridge 00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE Host Bridge 00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE Host Bridge 00:00.5 PIC: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE I/O APIC Interrupt Controller 00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE Host Bridge 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI bridge [K8T800/K8T890 South] 00:02.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T890 PCI to PCI Bridge Controller 00:03.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T890 PCI to PCI Bridge Controller 00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A SATA 2-Port Controller (rev 80) 00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 07) 00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82x UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0) 00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82x UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0) 00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82x UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0) 00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82x UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a0) 00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86) 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A PCI to ISA Bridge 00:11.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8251 Ultra VLINK Controller 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 7c) 00:13.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A Host Bridge 00:13.1 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A PCI to PCI Bridge 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8400 GS (rev a1) 80:01.0 Audio device: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA High Definition Audio Controller (rev 10) Anything else? Rosie -- CURRENTLY READING: The Rainbow, by DH Lawrence Pie'n'Mushies: Barrow Day-by-Day http://pieandmushies.wordpress.com I am not young enough to know everything signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
