On Sep 27, 2011 8:47 AM, "Harry Putnam" <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: > > Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> writes: > > > What do your basics performance tools like top and friends say? See > > what swap usage looks like outside the chroot while the compile is > > running - is it thrashing? What speed are you getting for the hard disk > > from hdparm -t -T? > > Top shows CC taking about 50% or in that vacinity... nothing else of > note is running. But man I've been at this for 3 days, or so. > Created at least 6 different kernels and none will get me > booted... either I get a panic and root cannot be mounted, or the > screen goes black shortly after grub screen... and nothing more > happens. > > I've tried 3.0.4 and backed up to 2.6.39* ... all this on a machine > that has run gentoo for several yrs. And I'm not a complete greenhorn > either. > > There must be some other source of problem I don't know about is all I > can think... > > I'm on the verge of copying an OS off the livecd and using that > kernel... this is just ridiculous. >
Weird. A thought occurred: could there be failing hardware? Start with testing your RAM, then your hard disk, then everything else. Rgds,
