Old user, new problems...

SkyLeach · Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 12:14 am Post subject: Old user, new problems...

Ok, due to network card configuration problems with kernel 2.6 (3com card with no HW MAC built-in which makes the driver fail under kernel versions 2.6.8 and highter up to 2.6.10) I needed to boot with a 2.4 kernel.

Since I already had a 1.4 livecd I decided to use this. I used the 2004.3 stage1 and the latest portage snapshot to bootstrap.

Everything was going fine until I tried to emerge system, which failed on gettext as shown here:

donjuan · l33t Joined: 11 May 2004 Posts: 760 Location: At Uni

This sort of thing happens if you have typed your CFLAGS wrong, so perhaps you should check them.
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The Stage 1 on 3 Install

SkyLeach · Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 3:28 pm Post subject: I don't think it was that...

I think I found my problem, but I would like a second opinion if anyone has one.

I wanted to try nptl on my new machine (dual processor athlon-mp system) so I enabled the nptl use flag, but since I was forced to boot with kernel 2.4 perhaps that was a mistake, since nptl isn't in kernel 2.4...

Probably broke my own gcc by doing that.

chicken-and-egg problem here, because I can't really do much with my system until I get a newer copy of 2.6 than the one on the livecd and I don't know that I can get a copy of the kernel built before I bootstrap.

I dunno, is the stage1 enough of a system to boot and continue the install if I put grub and a kernel on it?
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kimchi_sg · Advocate Joined: 26 Nov 2004 Posts: 2969

Have you read the NPTL from stage 1 tutorial yet?

If stability is more of your concern, yet you want NPTL, use the Stage 1-on-3 installation method. :-D

Both methods require nothing more than a liveCD that supports your hardware. Even a minimal liveCD will do.

donjuan · l33t Joined: 11 May 2004 Posts: 760 Location: At Uni

In your first post you said that you have the problem with kernel 2.6.8 and higher up to 2.6.10, so shouldn't any of the 2004.0-2004.2 LiveCDs work? They all have 2.6 kernels earlier than 2.6.8.
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The Stage 1 on 3 Install

SkyLeach · Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 3:13 pm Post subject: My mistake...

I thought from a previous post I read on another forum that the problem was 2.6.8 and above but I was mistaken. The problem shows itself in neumerous kernel versions in 2.5 and 2.6 but I don't know how far back in the progression it started.

The "bug" (actually, it was put in intentionally by a dev purist) is that when a 3com card has a balanked-out or removed eeprom then the 3c59x driver halts with an error -22. In reality, this shouldn't happen because the 3com cards will allow you to set the HW mac address with the ifconfig command, and you have to have the driver loaded to install a new EEPROM from software as I understand it. I'm pretty new to all the 3com stuff but this is what I have gathered so far from googling the problem.
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donjuan · l33t Joined: 11 May 2004 Posts: 760 Location: At Uni

An alternative is to build the system without NPTL then setup NPTL later. All this would require is after you have a working system (with a 2.6 kernel of course) add nptl to your USE flags then do

tomk · Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 2:34 pm Post subject:

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