I'll bet you have the "nptl" use flag, which requires 2.6 or better. rebuilding glibc with:
USE="-nptl -nptlonly" emerge glibc can probably make your system work with the 2.4 kernel, however you might just break even more things in the process. perhaps trying one of the other varieties of 2.6 kernels would give you better luck? On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 23:23 +0000, Ian K wrote: > >so I tried switching to 2.4.20 > >kernel. but when the system boot up and started to > >mount the disk, it complained of too old a kernel. -- Scott Taylor - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <rac> C++ can't improve - it's saddled with the design decision of C syntax compatibility, which makes it like writing _naked lunch_ in the olde english of _canterbury tales_: "whan thon junky amidst yonder veins spiketh" -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list