public inbox for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
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
>
> _______________________________________________
> gentoo-dev mailing list
> gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
> http://www.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev




  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]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-01-29  3:02 Dave Bresson
2001-01-29  7:21 ` Achim Gottinger
2001-01-29  9:29 ` drobbins

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=3A759803.B69F5EC2@gottinger.de \
    --to=320095285153-0001@t-online.de \
    --cc=gentoo-dev@gentoo.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox