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You can try SmartBootManager from a floppy and then boot the amd64 gentoo |
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cd. |
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If you're doing a 32bit install use i686 not pentium4, check if your amd64 |
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support sse3, if so add -msse3. |
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On 9/3/06, Ed W <lists@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Javi Moreno wrote: |
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> > I've succesfully installed an AMD64+hardened. Runs |
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> > apache+postfix+postgres+courier-imap+many things. |
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> > No problems so far, u'll have to use grub-static. |
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> Thanks. |
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> I have run into some early problems booting the darn system! Perhaps |
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> someone here has some cunning ideas |
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> Basic issue is that the machine is one of the cheap hosted boxes from |
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> 1&1 internet in the UK. They pre-install one of three operating systems |
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> and then have a really neat PXE boot into a rescue OS. So basically I |
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> am booting into the debian 2.6kernel rescue boot system and then trying |
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> to bootstrap the AMD64 install from there. |
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> The big issue is that it's a 32bit install of debian and so it's quite |
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> difficult to chroot into the 64bit stage 3 because /bin/bash is not |
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> going to run under a 32 bit kernel... |
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> I have spent quite a bit of time (and ultimately failed) to figure out |
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> how to boot the CD install which has been unpacked onto a spare |
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> partition. I reformatted the syslinux boot line to work under gentoo, |
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> but it keeps reporting that it can't find the root filesystem. |
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> I think for the moment I am going to stick with the 32 bit distro |
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> because it's going to improve my options if I need the rescue boot to |
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> recover control of the machine. However, what is the best compiler |
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> option for 32bit on an AMD64? At first sight it would appear that I |
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> should use "-march=pentium4" because other athlon options don't use the |
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> SSE2? Same for the kernel architecture option? |
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> Final question: I have a 32bit 2006.1 up and running on the machine |
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> right now. What are the implications of just turning on the hardened |
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> flag and running "emerge -e"? From some discussion a few days back it |
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> seems that hardened is extremely unsupported with gcc4.1.1 right now?? |
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> Is there a hardened stage 3 refresh due imminently? |
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> Cheers all |
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> Ed W |
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