Re: (no subject)

On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 21:32:34 +1300
"Simon Wells" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I get the stage3 tarball for my cpu which is the k6.2 and when i finish 
> doing all the configuration and building the kernel and install grub i got 
> to restart the computer and it just restarts the computer almost straight 
> after i choose to boot gentoo i am using the "-march k6-2 -03 -pipe" when 
> the kernel is compiling i see some things about i686 is there some other 
> thing i have to change (already changed chosts) to get it booting properly
> 
> I followed the build instructions all the way
> 
> thanx
> 
> Simon Wells

Sounds like your kernel is unstable or disagrees with your setup and simply crashes your PC, causing the reboot. There could be any number of reasons for this. In any case I would recommend that you reboot off the Gentoo CD, go up to the point where you've chrooted into your /mnt/gentoo, and configure/build/install your kernel again. Don't forget to copy your new bzImage into /boot afterwards. And issue:

  cd /usr/src/linux
  make mrproper

before you reconfigure your kernel. You will lose your chosen kernel settings but it's safer. Try to minimise your use of EXPERIMENTAL features, such as ACPI (quite possibly an offender, and might not even be properly supported by your motherboard),  although things like devfs are mandatory, and devfs should be configured to mount at boot. If you still have problems, try using the vanilla-sources instead of the gentoo-sources. Don't worry about your CHOST flags. The kernel always overrides and builds with "-i686" anyway.

HTH,

--keframil