| 1 |
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 08:39:45AM +0100, Achim Gottinger wrote: |
| 2 |
|
| 3 |
> I tested to install on a K6 yesterday too. The bootcd freezes after linuxrc |
| 4 |
> is finished So init gets not started. I compiled everything here with |
| 5 |
> -mpentium not -mpentiumpro, so the optimization can not be the cause for |
| 6 |
> that. The tarnge thing is that older versions of gentoo worked fine on K6/2 |
| 7 |
> machines here. |
| 8 |
|
| 9 |
Achim, remember that if for some reason the kernel is not compatible with the |
| 10 |
K6, /sbin/init will crash the first time it makes a call to an incompatible |
| 11 |
kernel function. Maybe a good test would be to boot and run /bin/bash first |
| 12 |
rather than init to make sure everything works. If everything works (ls, man, |
| 13 |
etc) then it might be /sbin/init. I see no special reason why init should |
| 14 |
be having problems and I'd guess that "pentiumpro" kernel optimizations are not |
| 15 |
compatible with the K6. You can test this by passing the init=/bin/bash option |
| 16 |
on the GRUB command line: |
| 17 |
|
| 18 |
In GRUB, (e)dit, goto line you want to change, (e)?edit, add "init=/bin/bash", |
| 19 |
hit enter, then (b)oot. I think that's how you do it. |
| 20 |
|
| 21 |
Thanks for looking into it, |
| 22 |
|
| 23 |
-- |
| 24 |
Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
| 25 |
President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org |
| 26 |
Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |
Archives