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Hi Gabriel, |
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> On Monday 06 December 2004 09:01 pm, Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote: |
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> UPDATE: Got 1.4rc1-test4 and booted it. Works fine. |
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Well, that's good news! If you can get your network up and running with |
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the 1.4rc1-test4 (or any other liveCD, for that matter), you can pull the |
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stage tarball of your choice from the net, as per the Gentoo handbook: |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-alpha.xml?part=1&chap=5#doc_chap2 |
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. This will probably work just fine with the 2004.3 stages; I don't think |
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you are restricted to the 1.4rc1 stages just because you use the 1.4rc1 |
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liveCD. |
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> From the sounds, it appears that the 2004.3 really *was* booting. |
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> However, it failed to re-initialize the video or something. |
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When (not if! ;-) you build your own kernel, you may want to be careful |
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around video options initially since your problems appear indeed to have |
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to do with video initialization. For instance, try disabling support for |
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the framebuffer console at first; just get a minimal kernel to boot on |
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your machine and add nice features incrementally. I'd start from the |
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alpha-sources (alpha-sources ebuild, which is the 2.4.21 kernel with loads |
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of alpha-specific patches). |
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Good luck! |
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Marnix. |
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