[olug] gentoo install problems

[Jay Swackhamer]

Gentoo works well on newer hardware.....I've got an Opteron System with
SATA, and I've just sent out an Athlon64 system....(Audigy2, FX5600,
SATA).....Gentoo is no different than any other distro, it's still Linux,
so anything that works with linux, works, and with gentoo you'll have
better luck than others, because it is kept more up to date....LiveCD's
with 2.6 kernels..not many other distros yet....

Anyway...

The portage message after syncing is more for after you have a working
system, Did you emerge your system before you tried to emerge the new
portage? Portage will emerge things in the correct order, so when you do
an 'emerge -p system' it will show you in the list when portage will be
updated......
With a stage2 you have chosen to take some pre-compiled defaults, so you
need to use the tools that are at that point-in-time until other things
have been updated.....

So with a stage2 you'd (short version)
boot from livecd
partition/mkfs/mount
swapon /dev/hdxx
untar stage2
mount -t proc proc /mnt/gentoo/proc
copy net files/etc.....
chroot /mnt/gentoo
env-update
source /etc/profile
setup /etc/make.conf
emerge sync
emerge system

> Installing from: LiveCD Stage 2 Pentium 4
>
> After chrooting, I'm prompted that there is a new version of portage. I
> promptly "emerge portage". When compiling "db.1.85.tar.gz to
> /var/tmp/portage/db-1.85-r1/work" I get the following error messages:
>
> Code:
> gcc -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--version-script=libdb.map -Wl,-soname=libdb.so.2 -shared
> -o libdb.so.2 hash.os hash_bigkey.os hash_buf.os hash_func.os hash_log2.os
> hash_page.os ndbm.os bt_close.os bt_conv.os bt_debug.os bt_delete.os
> bt_get.os bt_open.os bt_overflow.os bt_page.os bt_put.os bt_search.os
> bt_seq.os bt_split.os bt_utils.os db.os mpool.os rec_close.os
> rec_delete.os rec_get.os rec_open.os rec_put.os rec_search.os rec_seq.os
> rec_utils.os
> ln -sf libdb.so.2 libdb.so
> make: *** [libdb.so.2] Segmentation fault
> make: *** Deleting file `libdb.so.2'
> make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
>
> !!! ERROR: sys-libs/db-1.85-r1 failed.
> !!! Function src_compile, Line 26, Exitcode 2
> !!! (no error message)
>
>
> I then found several suggestions that I may need to emerge glibc first, so
> I did that: I get a kernel panic:
> Code:
> Code: c7 00 01 00 00 00 8b 83 88 00 00 00 c7 40 04 00 00 00 00 8b
>  <0>Kernel Panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler
> In interrupt handler - not syncing
>
> Any of you gentoo zealots want to take a crack at this one? :) You can
> disprove my "gentoo doesn't work on newer hardware" argument.
>
>
> Dave Thacker
>
>
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