[olug] gentoo install problems

[Nathan D. Rotschafer]

Also...make sure you are not doing anything with SSE2 and if you are using
the pentium4 architecture in the cflags make sure you use mcpu=pentium4
rather than march=pentium4.  Those are standard things because gcc does not
produce p4/sse2 code correctly.  And also don't emerge a portage update
until after your system is up and running.  Between those two I would
imagine one of those will fix your problem.

Nate
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay Swackhamer" <Jay at RebootTheUser.com>
To: "Omaha Linux User Group" <olug at olug.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 6:15 AM
Subject: Re: [olug] gentoo install problems


> Gentoo works well on newer hardware.....I've got an Opteron System with
> SATA, and I've just sent out an Athlon64 system....(Audigy2, FX5600,
> SATA).....Gentoo is no different than any other distro, it's still Linux,
> so anything that works with linux, works, and with gentoo you'll have
> better luck than others, because it is kept more up to date....LiveCD's
> with 2.6 kernels..not many other distros yet....
>
> Anyway...
>
> The portage message after syncing is more for after you have a working
> system, Did you emerge your system before you tried to emerge the new
> portage? Portage will emerge things in the correct order, so when you do
> an 'emerge -p system' it will show you in the list when portage will be
> updated......
> With a stage2 you have chosen to take some pre-compiled defaults, so you
> need to use the tools that are at that point-in-time until other things
> have been updated.....
>
> So with a stage2 you'd (short version)
> boot from livecd
> partition/mkfs/mount
> swapon /dev/hdxx
> untar stage2
> mount -t proc proc /mnt/gentoo/proc
> copy net files/etc.....
> chroot /mnt/gentoo
> env-update
> source /etc/profile
> setup /etc/make.conf
> emerge sync
> emerge system
>
> > Installing from: LiveCD Stage 2 Pentium 4
> >
> > After chrooting, I'm prompted that there is a new version of portage. I
> > promptly "emerge portage". When compiling "db.1.85.tar.gz to
> > /var/tmp/portage/db-1.85-r1/work" I get the following error messages:
> >
> > Code:
> >
gcc -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--version-script=libdb.map -Wl,-soname=libdb.so.2 -shared
> > -o libdb.so.2 hash.os hash_bigkey.os hash_buf.os hash_func.os
hash_log2.os
> > hash_page.os ndbm.os bt_close.os bt_conv.os bt_debug.os bt_delete.os
> > bt_get.os bt_open.os bt_overflow.os bt_page.os bt_put.os bt_search.os
> > bt_seq.os bt_split.os bt_utils.os db.os mpool.os rec_close.os
> > rec_delete.os rec_get.os rec_open.os rec_put.os rec_search.os rec_seq.os
> > rec_utils.os
> > ln -sf libdb.so.2 libdb.so
> > make: *** [libdb.so.2] Segmentation fault
> > make: *** Deleting file `libdb.so.2'
> > make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> >
> > !!! ERROR: sys-libs/db-1.85-r1 failed.
> > !!! Function src_compile, Line 26, Exitcode 2
> > !!! (no error message)
> >
> >
> > I then found several suggestions that I may need to emerge glibc first,
so
> > I did that: I get a kernel panic:
> > Code:
> > Code: c7 00 01 00 00 00 8b 83 88 00 00 00 c7 40 04 00 00 00 00 8b
> >  <0>Kernel Panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler
> > In interrupt handler - not syncing
> >
> > Any of you gentoo zealots want to take a crack at this one? :) You can
> > disprove my "gentoo doesn't work on newer hardware" argument.
> >
> >
> > Dave Thacker
> >
> >
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