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ahelge
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 Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 6:54 am Post subject: Locking up after "booting the kernel" message |
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I have installed Gentoo 2.6.19-r5 using the instruction in the handbook (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml).
When I reboot for the first (and subsequent) times it locks up after
| Code: | Booting 'Gentoo Linux 2.6.19-r5'
root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel /boot/kernel root=/dev/hda3
[Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1a00, size=0x305a67]
Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.
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I am using a EPIA-M (ME6000) motherboard. |
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wynn
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| Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 9:05 am Post subject: |
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Possibly due to an illegal instruction, your CPU may not be entirely i686 compatible. Your motherboard appears to have either a VIA C3 or a VIA Eden processor.
There are discussions on the CFLAGS settings to use with the VIA processors here.
I don't know the difference between " Esther C5J (Via C7)", " Nehemiah (C5XL)/C5P (Via)" and " Eden C3/Samuel/Ezra (Via EPIA)" but there is a note that "more recent versions of the C3 do support the cmov instruction and hence -march=i686."
You will also have to make the correct choice under | Code: | Processor type and features --->
Processor family |
by selecting one of | Code: | ( ) CyrixIII/VIA-C3
( ) VIA C3-2 (Nehemiah) |
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ahelge
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| Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 1:32 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for the help, that worked.
Here is what I had to do.
Edit the /etc/make.conf to look like:
| Code: | CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=c3 -m3dnow -Os -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" |
Ran "genkernel --menuconfig all" setting the processor type to be:
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Processor type and features --->
Processor family
( * ) CyrixIII/VIA-C3
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