Hi, I have cloned an ~amd64 system which is running happily on a modern Opteron machine to an old Opteron machine. Unfortunately, I've built that system with CFLAGS -msse3 and msse4a and USE-flags sse3 sse4a . Since these instructions are not available on an old Opteron I had to "emerge -e world" which was (is) a real mess and which has taken 3 weeks now (not full time, of course) I've rebuilt the kernel (several times) but I cannot boot the machine. When I boot with SystemRescueCD and change root, the machine runs perfectly. The boot process stops after displaying the messages Freeing unused kernel memory: 356 k freed init-early.sh used greatest stack depth: 4376 bytes left
I have looked at dozens of places which Google returns but I couldn't find a reason. E.g. the kernel is built with amd-64-generic. I've re-emerged sys-apps/sysvinit several times but nothing helps. So, has anybody a suggestion on what to try out or how to locate the problem? I'm more than grateful for any hints since it could save me another three weeks work. Helmut.
