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#1 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 05:07 AM

Hi NG

I tried to install gentoo on two different PC's, on a Pentium 100, starting
from stage 1 (yes....it took me about a week!) and a k6-2 from stage3. Both
times I configured a custom kernel to fit the hardware including all
advisories in the gentoo install manual. (hope so)

Both times the kernels don't boot.
LILO does its job but then the computer reboots automatically without an
error message, kernel panic or whatever.
There appears something like "BIOS ..hmm...checksum error...???...." for a
tenth of a second. I can't really read it cus its too fast.

On the k6-2 i was surprised to see that compiling the kernel was done with a
"-march=i686" option. although I specified "-mcpu=k6-2" without any "-march"
in make.conf. Is this the problem? All other emerges compiled with
"-mcpu=k6-2" as the should.

I used the 1.4 x86 release liveCD

thanks
Alain

#2 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 05:07 AM

Alain Brenzikofer wrote:

> Hi NG
>
> I tried to install gentoo on two different PC's, on a Pentium 100,
> starting from stage 1 (yes....it took me about a week!) and a k6-2 from
> stage3. Both times I configured a custom kernel to fit the hardware
> including all advisories in the gentoo install manual. (hope so)
>
> Both times the kernels don't boot.
> LILO does its job but then the computer reboots automatically without an
> error message, kernel panic or whatever.
> There appears something like "BIOS ..hmm...checksum error...???...." for a
> tenth of a second. I can't really read it cus its too fast.
>
> On the k6-2 i was surprised to see that compiling the kernel was done with
> a "-march=i686" option. although I specified "-mcpu=k6-2" without any
> "-march" in make.conf. Is this the problem? All other emerges compiled
> with "-mcpu=k6-2" as the should.
>
> I used the 1.4 x86 release liveCD
>
> thanks
> Alain
>
>
Should have changed the host to i586 and then select the correct kernel type
when building. For the K6-2 you can safely select mmx as the CPU does
include it. For the P100 though, because it didn't become available until
the P133/166 cpu's.

Most likely you will need to rebuild the base system and all other apps to
suit the CPU if you had left things set to the default CHOST of i686.
Doesn't work for your System. Both are i586 systems.

HTH

#3 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 05:07 AM

chosing k6-2 didn't work ..neither did genkernel (It aborted automatically
while "make bzImage")

...so I compiled a i386 Kernel that is working now......
not too satisfying...but at least a running kernel.

thanks
Alain

"Whyld-Chyld" <test@example.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Alain Brenzikofer wrote:
>
> > Hi NG
> >
> > I tried to install gentoo on two different PC's, on a Pentium 100,
> > starting from stage 1 (yes....it took me about a week!) and a k6-2 from
> > stage3. Both times I configured a custom kernel to fit the hardware
> > including all advisories in the gentoo install manual. (hope so)
> >
> > Both times the kernels don't boot.
> > LILO does its job but then the computer reboots automatically without an
> > error message, kernel panic or whatever.
> > There appears something like "BIOS ..hmm...checksum error...???...." for
a
> > tenth of a second. I can't really read it cus its too fast.
> >
> > On the k6-2 i was surprised to see that compiling the kernel was done
with
> > a "-march=i686" option. although I specified "-mcpu=k6-2" without any
> > "-march" in make.conf. Is this the problem? All other emerges compiled
> > with "-mcpu=k6-2" as the should.
> >
> > I used the 1.4 x86 release liveCD
> >
> > thanks
> > Alain
> >
> >
> Should have changed the host to i586 and then select the correct kernel
type
> when building. For the K6-2 you can safely select mmx as the CPU does
> include it. For the P100 though, because it didn't become available until
> the P133/166 cpu's.
>
> Most likely you will need to rebuild the base system and all other apps to
> suit the CPU if you had left things set to the default CHOST of i686.
> Doesn't work for your System. Both are i586 systems.
>
> HTH

#4 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 05:08 AM

Alain Brenzikofer wrote:

> chosing k6-2 didn't work ..neither did genkernel (It aborted automatically
> while "make bzImage")
>
> ..so I compiled a i386 Kernel that is working now......
> not too satisfying...but at least a running kernel.
>
> thanks
> Alain
>
>
>
> "Whyld-Chyld" <test@example.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:ZCb4b.21907$Ad4.9199245@news3.news.adelphia.n et...
>> Alain Brenzikofer wrote:
>Snipped
>
>
-- Strange. Did you change the chost in make.conf to i586; which is where I
suspect the orignal problem occured.

Another thing is that a generic 586 cpu should work fine for both systems as
the K6 is actually equal to the P2's.
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