Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on a 486
MAL wrote: Mark Hawrylak wrote: Rex Young wrote: h...I can't really say what the problem might be. Is it possible that this is a grub configuration problem? Perhaps you pointed grub to the kernel properly, but not to the filesystem root correctly? Sorry, but you don't have many hints there. > no errors present else I would have been able to figured it myself. there is no grub or lilo issues because I boot using a boot floppy that does not require any modules ( I did this and tested this out and it worked before I installed gentoo so I know it works) As Rex said, are you sure that grub is pointing to the right root filesystem, and that /etc/fstab on the system, is correct. Feel free to post those files here and we'll gander :) MAL -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list I compiled the kernel on my athlon ( I use the same kernel for the debian installation I had on it) the kernel required no modules dd if=486img of=/dev/fd0 so there is no lilo or grub to deal with. and fstab is correct! it should say init version XXX and stuff and start the init scripts. but they dont run. I got the system running when I booted using my athlon and set the root=/dev/hdd2 which on the athlon is the gentoo partition. when I used the boot disk rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hda2 here is some more into. I did extract on the stage1_1.4_rc4 and used that boot disk to boot into the system and it started fine...so the problem is something with the compiled files on the root fs. ill try to recompile with -02 this time round and see how it goes. thanx guys -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on a 486
Mark Hawrylak wrote: Rex Young wrote: h...I can't really say what the problem might be. Is it possible that this is a grub configuration problem? Perhaps you pointed grub to the kernel properly, but not to the filesystem root correctly? Sorry, but you don't have many hints there. > no errors present else I would have been able to figured it myself. there is no grub or lilo issues because I boot using a boot floppy that does not require any modules ( I did this and tested this out and it worked before I installed gentoo so I know it works) As Rex said, are you sure that grub is pointing to the right root filesystem, and that /etc/fstab on the system, is correct. Feel free to post those files here and we'll gander :) MAL -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on a 486
Rex Young wrote: note the kernel mount the HD fine, just no init scripts are executed and no prompt is given are there any isses with gentoo and running it on a 486? the gcc on 1.4_rc4 and 486 chips? or the compiled code on a 486. I know there are a few bugs with compiling gentoo on a 486 with gcc in 1.4_rc4 (courtesy of the bugtracking system) so I used the chrooted enviroment. some assistance or pointers? should I rebuild with i386 ? or withing -fomit-frame-pointer or remove -03 h...I can't really say what the problem might be. Is it possible that this is a grub configuration problem? Perhaps you pointed grub to the kernel properly, but not to the filesystem root correctly? Sorry, but you don't have many hints there. I built a system for a 486 using gcc 2.95 about a year ago and had no problem at all. Things worked just fine. I even had X running on it for a while. Neat. Working from memory, I would say that the flags were: -march=i486 -O2 Pretty simple. I don't think that this is your problem, though. I can't imagine that optimizations would lead to a failed init. Do you see any sort of an error there that you can pass on? -rex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list no errors present else I would have been able to figured it myself. there is no grub or lilo issues because I boot using a boot floppy that does not require any modules ( I did this and tested this out and it worked before I installed gentoo so I know it works) ask all the questions u want I am happy to answer and try to figure this 1 out though I think I may recompile with -march=i486 -02 and see how I go. cheers -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] gentoo on a 486
>note the kernel mount the HD fine, just no init scripts are >executed and >no prompt is given > >are there any isses with gentoo and running it on a 486? >the gcc on 1.4_rc4 and 486 chips? or the compiled code on a 486. > >I know there are a few bugs with compiling gentoo on a 486 with gcc in >1.4_rc4 (courtesy of the bugtracking system) so I used the chrooted >enviroment. > >some assistance or pointers? >should I rebuild with i386 ? or withing >-fomit-frame-pointer >or remove -03 > h...I can't really say what the problem might be. Is it possible that this is a grub configuration problem? Perhaps you pointed grub to the kernel properly, but not to the filesystem root correctly? Sorry, but you don't have many hints there. I built a system for a 486 using gcc 2.95 about a year ago and had no problem at all. Things worked just fine. I even had X running on it for a while. Neat. Working from memory, I would say that the flags were: -march=i486 -O2 Pretty simple. I don't think that this is your problem, though. I can't imagine that optimizations would lead to a failed init. Do you see any sort of an error there that you can pass on? -rex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
