installation problems and g3 optimizations

gogor · n00b Joined: 21 Jun 2002 Posts: 11

hi, i m in the process of installing gentoo on a brand new ibook i just bought.
well i'm having a lot of problem but still i m learning a lot with them. the main glitch i've been running in is with the latest ppc iso. in the first place i wanted to use lvm, then i tried with only 2 partitions and finally i tested with one big root partition in ext2. Everything goes quite well, and sudently when i bootstrap, the process fails with kernel oops talking about a filesystem bug, trying to access a block beyond filesystem limit (ext2 & ext3 same pb) and trying to free free buffer and so on.
right now i'm trying to bootstrap with an older iso and a 5 gigs root partition and it seem's that the problem has not showed up yet. So this could look like a bug in the kernel of the initrd of the latest iso (while a cat /proc/version tells me that it is the same eg 2.4.19-r2). i will inform you of the continuation of the process.

while i m here what are the best make.conf flags for a G3 ?
i'm having a problem with the keymap, trying to load anything different than the default causes the enter key to function improperly, the keymap keep unchanged and being unable to revert to a us keymap.

thank for any responses you could give

gogor · n00b Joined: 21 Jun 2002 Posts: 11

i just saw that someone ran in the same problem. it looks like it's an unsolved bug yet.

my bootstap with the old iso is still going well by the way...

karasu · Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2002 1:05 am Post subject: block beyond file system

I've conclusively found that problem to be linked to using the 2.4.19-r3 kernel from the ISO.

I actually had to install YDL 2.2 to get an appropriate compile environment setup. Once I had that installed, the bootstrap, and emerge system processes all completed successfully.

It sounds like maybe 2.4.19-r4 has this problem fixed.