From: 320095285153-0001@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger)
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] install bootstrap problem
Date: Mon Jan 29 11:40:02 2001 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A759803.B69F5EC2@gottinger.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 000001c08a11$6e31d2d0$0800a8c0@speedymonkey
smk_va@yahoo.com wrote:
> In response to Dave Bresson
> >> so i have a bit of a bootstrap problem. ...
>
> Achim Gottinger wrote:
>
> > rc3 was optimized for i686 systems, so it does not run on pentium/k6
> systems. :-/ We changed that in rc4 (optimized for i486), so you need the
> lates rc4 (pre2) cd.
>
> A couple of points:
>
> 1. the rc3 disk does the same hang described by Dave on my Compaq ProSignia
> 500 with PPro which is a P6 class processor
Hmm, it worked on a PII/PIII/K7 over here. The main problem was glibc-2.2
which uses
special i686 instructions when compile for i686-pc-linux-gnu. Maybe the
classify ppro as
i586.
>
> 2. when I try to bootstrap the rc4_pre2 CD on the ProSignia 500, I can't
> because the kernel image in "bootgrub.img" does not support the NCR SCSI
> adapter chip in the ProSignia 500 (booting from the image packaged with rc3
> does find the CD, it just hangs at "changing root ..."
Hmm, support for NCR SCSI adapters should be in there. I will check this.
>
> 3. when I boot from the rc4_pre2 CD on a P5 (Compaq Deskpro), I get a
> message that it appears not to be the distribution disk.
Daniel, did you include the version file on the iso-image?
achim~
>
>
> Any help getting Gentoo going on this machine would be much appreciated.
>
> Murthy
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-29 18:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-29 9:32 [gentoo-dev] install bootstrap problem smk_va
2001-01-29 10:48 ` drobbins
2001-01-29 11:40 ` Achim Gottinger [this message]
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2001-01-29 3:02 Dave Bresson
2001-01-29 7:21 ` Achim Gottinger
2001-01-29 9:29 ` drobbins
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