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kezzla
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 Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 2:06 am Post subject: Request AMD64+gcc34+reiser4 Livecd |
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Can someone please hook this up !!! A bleeding edge kernel with all the latest reiser4 patches and gcc34 already there with 64-bit goodness...would be NICE 
I've seen many threads with all these hacked up ways to install amd64 with reiser4 .. Lets get a livecd for this already...
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Deranger
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| Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 5:25 am Post subject: Re: Request AMD64+gcc34+reiser4 Livecd |
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| kezzla wrote: | Can someone please hook this up !!! A bleeding edge kernel with all the latest reiser4 patches and gcc34 already there with 64-bit goodness...would be NICE
I've seen many threads with all these hacked up ways to install amd64 with reiser4 .. Lets get a livecd for this already...
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lxnay is working on it (check Reiser4 LiveCD thread from Italian-section). There's some bugs in Catalyst (LiveCD creation tool) that prevents creating it. He will release AMD64 Reiser4 LiveCD when devs has fixed the problem. Yeah, there are ways to install it, but they are ugly hacks  |
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bos_mindwarp
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| Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:48 pm Post subject: |
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| I could settle for fresh 2.6.x kernel, nptlonly and udev, both on 32 and 64 bit live-cds. Been running nptl for quite some time now, ever since 2.5.x days. Never had any major problems, for a while blackdown-jdk wouldnt work with nptl, but that was it as I recall. |
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kezzla
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| Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 3:58 pm Post subject: |
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This udev stuff sounds interesting...I can't seem to find a definitive howto for this though. Sounds like you have to disable devfs in kernel and add something to grub ? Not sure on the specifics .. Guess this would be another thread altogether 
Are there any advantages to using udev over devfs ? I would like to implement this on amd64 during the install. |
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Swatinem
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Is it possible to install a amd64 system using a x86 livecd? I guess not but i'm not sure.
I'm about to install a fresh new system with all the latest stuff including reiser4 but there doesnt seems to be a amd64 livecd supporting that. |
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Maedhros
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| Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 1:23 pm Post subject: |
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| kezzla wrote: | | This udev stuff sounds interesting...I can't seem to find a definitive howto for this though. Sounds like you have to disable devfs in kernel and add something to grub ? Not sure on the specifics .. Guess this would be another thread altogether |
Nah, all you need to do is emerge udev, and remove devfs from your kernel. That's all there is to it! There should be several howtos on how to use udev afterwards hanging around, as well.
| Swatinem wrote: | | Is it possible to install a amd64 system using a x86 livecd? I guess not but i'm not sure. |
Yes, but only in 32-bit.
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needlern1
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SoTired
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| Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 6:23 pm Post subject: |
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Sorry to bring this thread back from the depths it had sunk into, but I couldn't find any more recent threads dealing with a bleeding-edge amd64 livecd.
Basically, my question is what's happened in the past 15 odd days with this, has there been any progress?
I checked out the thread in the Italian section (It may have been the wrong one,) but reading the posts after the first one wasn't really going so well, with my utter lack of any knowledge of the langauge and all, so... yeah - anyone have any updates? |
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kezzla
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| Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 6:26 pm Post subject: |
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AGREED !!! Ya my first post still applies .. |
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luisdelv
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| Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 7:36 am Post subject: |
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| Any news on a cd yet for reiser4 on amd64? |
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Jake
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| Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 9:29 am Post subject: |
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| Does anyone here actually have reiser4 working on AMD64? I haven't seen a single definitive "reiser4 has been rock solid for me on AMD64 with kernel 2.6.x-blah for a week" yet. |
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epic
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| Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 10:15 pm Post subject: reiser4 on amd64 |
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i have tried reiser4 on amd for some time now, beeing the type that not settles for the second fastest FS(reiser4) or OS(64bit), i ran it quite sucsessfully using 2.6.9-rc2-love4 a couple of days, then i tried nitro1 and nitro3, neither of which worked any better, rather worse.
cko3 makes pdflush go 99% cpu and tottaly lag the system, i'm about to try 2.6.10-rc1-vanilla with reiser4 when i get the time :) |
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Jake
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| Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 1:08 am Post subject: |
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reisre4 also works for "a couple of days" for me. I can, however, always kill it with the following command executed from a kernel source directory, assuming /proc/config.gz is enabled
| Code: | | for i in `seq 1 20` ; do make mrproper ; zcat /proc/config.gz > .config ; make ; echo $i ; done & for i in `seq 1 5` ; do dd if=/dev/zero of=large_file bs=1M count=20k ; rm large_file ; echo $i ; done |
If you don't have enough free space for a 20Gb file, lower the block count and make it run more iterations.
I get hardlocks with debugging disabled and processes freezing with debugging enabled. Either way I need to reboot, and sometimes the filesystem gets corrupted. |
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epic
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| Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 1:55 am Post subject: |
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i saw your previous post, seems like you've done some research on this..
you talked to any of the reiser4 devs about this? i also _really_ want this to work! |
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Jake
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| Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 3:11 am Post subject: |
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| epic wrote: | i saw your previous post, seems like you've done some research on this..
you talked to any of the reiser4 devs about this? i also _really_ want this to work! |
Yup, and it looks like I'm the only person reporting AMD64 problems to the mailing list. Namesys refuses to buy AMD64 hardware (holding out for donations), so they won't be fixing it by themselves anytime soon.
If you want to help, either try an mm kernel (good luck with mm on AMD64), or read ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiser4-for-2.6/reiser4-on-2.6.10-rc1-HOWTO. Build reiser4 with assertions and see what gets logged when you crash it. Also check for corruption. I log the results of fsck --check and fsck --build-fs (if --check says I need to). Also, Vitaly is interested in the results of another --check if the FS was rebuilt. |
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epic
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| Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 8:51 am Post subject: |
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| i will see how much time i can spare for this. but bets are that i will try this anyway, so why not report my findings to a mailinglist? :) |
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luciano
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| Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 9:51 am Post subject: Which Kernel have you used for reiser4 |
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Hi guys,
I also have an amd64 system and have been trying to install 64 bit linux on it with reiser4... But I can't seem to start it up! I've compiled a 2.6.9-mm1 kernel with reiser4 support, and put it in a ext2 /boot partition. I've formated a reiser4 partition to be my root partition, and installed stage1 and (later) stage2 files there... I'm assuming you guys have done something similar?
But when I try to boot my kernel, it hangs after successfully mounting the reiser4 partition saying something like:
Not syncing - init failed: try adding init= to your startup params
I have appended init=/bin/bash to the kernel parameters, but this is no use. As I said above, I have tried 2.6.9-mm1, and before that 2.6.9-nitro2. if 2.6.9-rc2 worked, shouldn't 2.6.9 work as well??
Is there any way to get more debuggin information on boot up, e.g. by adding the 'assertions' kernel option?
Hope you can help!! |
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