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On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 13:03, Joshua Brindle wrote: |
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> I can't reproduce this on vmware (and neither can Chris). after |
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> bootstrap I just hit enter and the console comes back. Can someone |
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> having this problem give as many hardware details as possible, |
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> especially video cards, etc. Also, if it's not to much trouble could you |
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> try it with a 2.6 normal gentoo livecd and see if it happens. Thanks |
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The hardware is an old Dell GX110, Pentium III, Intel i810 chipset, |
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including video. It won't run in frame buffer mode at all: it doesn't |
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like the available video modes (passed an undefined mode number), so |
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I've only ever run it (on this hardware) in VGA console. Under normal |
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operation while booted on the live CD, I can get the console back |
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without any trouble. The only time it would go away and not return is |
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while running bootstrap.sh. When this happened, even caps lock wouldn't |
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work, which I take to mean the kernel died. If it's idle (not running |
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bootstrap.sh) and blanks, it comes back fine. bootstrap-2.6.sh also |
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works. |
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You can diff bootstrap.sh and bootstrap-2.6.sh yourself, but here are |
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some notes: |
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* 2.6 checks for USE=nptl, which is used to select kernel headers (2.4 |
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or 2.6) |
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* AUTOCLEAN="yes" in 2.6, vs. "no" in original. |
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* Original does a manual emerge clean after merging binutils. |
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I have a recent beta Live CD for 2004.0. With that, I have the same |
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frame buffer issues as above. However, it has a 2.4.24-xfs kernel, so |
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I'll have to hunt for a 2.6 live CD. |
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Andy Dustman <adustman@×××××××××.edu> |
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Office of Information Technology, Terry College of Business, UGA |
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