Re: Gentoo on Alpha DS25

Jeff Donsbach wrote:	[Wed Jun 08 2005, 12:20:04PM EDT]
> There seems to be scattered reports of people not being able to boot
> the 2005.0 LiveCD. It would be great if we could all collaborate and
> see if there is something in common in all these cases. I'm willing
> to do my part, but I'll probably need some guidance debugging the
> boot process. I have access to two machines I have not been able to
> boot 2005.0 on: an old XL366 ("white box", MILO only) and a not
> quite as old XP1000 500Mhz (currently running Tru64 UNIX). Both
> boxes hang during boot at roughly the same place, though I am not
> sure where exactly.

The basic problem is that a GENERIC kernel doesn't work on a variety
of machines.  Instead you need to build a specific kernel, such as
DP264.  It would be great to collect the list into a Gentoo bug so we
could be more specific, though.  I'm sure that upstream would be happy
if we could get closer to the problem.

Regards,
Aron

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Aron Griffis
Gentoo Linux Developer

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