AMD64 LiveCD-green (reiser4,wlan,a.o.)

[ahorn]

i got some time to do an huge update. please look to this http://64.gnuplanet.de.
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[ahorn]

I made a blog-like webpage for the cd. This is also usefull, because you can informate me about errors, bugs and wishes directly.
To go to the page, just klick on that following link http://livecd.todesmut.org !
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[jtopping]

won't 2005.0 be out any day now?
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[ahorn]

I found some mistake did by me in /etc/conf.d/apache2. It must be -D SSL PHP4 not -D SSL PHP.
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[rcb1974]

Thanks for this livecd Ahorn. I'll test it out on my Athlon64 3200 machine at home.
Do you happen to know where we can get a 2.6.11 vanilla kernel with all the latest reiser4 patches applied? I've read through the forums in search of one but all I've found is:

1) A howto on creating an ebuilds for reiser4 enabled vanilla <=2.6.10 kernels http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-295168-highlight-reiser4+amd64.html
2) A 2.6.11 reiser4 enabled kernel that doesn't compile on amd64 (2.6.11-nitro0) http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-302767-highlight-nitro.html

Thanks!
Richard

[ahorn]

yardbird (the dev of morph-sources) said, that we can expect a stable 2.6.11 reiser4 patch this week from the reiser people. Also, i hope, i can take morph-sources at the next livecd64 version, because it's safe and provide us more features (even for amd64).
Anyway, i'm using 2.6.11-nitro0 on the livecd this time and you have to copy asm-offset.c from asm-i386 to asm to let it compile cleanly on your pc. that's what i did.

edit for completness:

[ahorn]

Hi postless thread,
i'm still on it and here is my todo list for my next version i'll upload. As you see, i finished a light xorg install (6.8.2, works great with pci-e) and made a autoconfiguration runlevel script for xorg.conf with working glx (glx works for nvidia, ati i can't test) for nvidia and ati (i don't know if there're other pci-e gpus), also for old pci graphic cards (like voodoo), you can use the standard vesa treiber (with opengl-update xorg-x11 inclusive) which is also autodetected at boot. so you only need to do a startx and fluxbox runs on your screen with possible 100Hz (depends on your Monitor, TFTs will use 60Hz). I need help by ati users, please post me your lsmod and your best ati-drivers for ~amd64, because i can't figure it out myself what's the best. damn, did you every did a opengl-update on a ro-fs, a lot are files are written .
another good feature is lm_sensors, this is not to difficult to configure them, but it's better to use them immitadely after boot. hddtemp the same.
with alsa included, the boot cd detects the most onboard and offboard soundcards, probably you hear your favorite mp3s during the gentoo install. if someone wants mplayer, too, we can discuss it here or he/she sends me a PM.

[TBerrang]

First, thank you for all the work you put in this project and for releasing it to the public! I'm currently downloding your CD at work (we have 1GB connections here ) and I will test it later when I'm home again.
Because I'm currently very unhappy with the AMD64-2004.3 release (in terms of doing a stage1-install), I'm really looking forward to it.
I'll let you know how it works. .

Btw, have you some bugzilla up/running to report bugs or make feature reqests?

Cheers,
Torsten.
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[H3g3m0n]

Nice work but unfortunatly its not booting for me
I tried the livecd64-ahorn0.iso.bz2 but get a kernel panic on boot

[TBerrang]

It 's a_live! Muahahaaa! Ähm. Sorry. No, just wanted to say: your livecd works fine for me, ahorn! I downloaded
"livecd64-pre-ahorn0.iso.bz2" (the big one), burned and testet it with:

GA K8NS-Ultra 939 (nForce3 chipset), with Athlon64 3200+ (Newcastle) installed,
2x 512MB DDR400 Dual-Channel RAM (Infinion-on-3rd), MSI GForce 4600Ti installed and
160GB Samsung SATA disc (attatched to onbo SIL controller).

Startup with no errors. I could not test all the goodies, but when I catch a little free time this weekend, I'll put in
an old 80GB IDE harddisk and take a look at them. I'll send you gladly all errors. .

Noticed errors:
* sk98lin module for my internal 1000MBit NIC does not work correctly (perhaps grabb the module at Syskonnect and include it with a future release,
to make all the Marvell-users out there happy).

Feature request:
* A small startup-script that lets you choose your keyboard-layout (like the gentoo-livecd). Just because it's annoying to type commands
on a german keyboard with english layout. .

Please keep up your good work! Cheers,
Torsten.
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[ahorn]

[ahorn]

[GTVincent]

I'm trying your livecd, but my 15" lcd monitor couldn't display the video mode you're using. I can take the vga= option from the boot line, but it would be nice if there would be an option to just use a normal text screen.

Also, when I've taken out the vga= option, I just get a prompt, and I'm unable to type anything

[ahorn]

[rcb1974]

I tried out your livecd Ahorn and it works great! My setup is nearly identical (same motherboard, CPU, and even RAM!) to TBerrang's except I have a 200GB Maxtor SATA drive. Thanks for all effort.

[ahorn]

[firephoto]

I tried the newest livecd but I can't get beyond the language selection part since it happens before the usb keyboard gets enabled for the system. Keyboard works fine through grub as normal but once a kernel loads it doesn't go active again till after the kernel loads and the "Gentoo" part starts. It boots fine up until that part.

[ahorn]

[talkingcrow]

Nice livecd! I was wondering if in the next version you could add cryptsetup and gpg. I've been trying to install an ~amd64 system with lvm2 over dm-crypt with a gpg key, but it's difficult as no livecd exists with all of those features. Thanks!

[ahorn]

[ahorn]

Please notice, that the gcc-package on the livecd (that one in /mnt/livecd/portage) is without multilib and i guess it doesn't work with bootstrap. If you got network at the cd, you can download a multilib version from http://satanix.de/mirror/livecds/rescue-packages/gcc-3.4.3-r1.tbz2 ! Grub will not compile without multilib, too.
Gcc with multilib will be included in future releases.
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[d_adams]

Any chance of just hosting the iso? Every image I've downloaded and extracted has been corrupt. It boots up to the init version and stops with unknown cd format and drops me to a bash shell. Nothing is available from there, can't mount anything or see anything on system. Also, I checked the md5 sums and they never match for me. Maybe it's just me? I have another cdrw I can put in the pc if needed. Current cdrom is a Aopen dvd/cdrw combo drive.

Edit: Turns out it's definitely the drive. Booted up fine on my other box, with the exception of lmsensors setting off an alarm on the motherboard. Did it 3 times in a row as a test. Every time, after loading lmsensors, it starts buzzing, like it's a temp alarm.
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[ahorn]

[d_adams]

Ok, dropped other cdrom into system, it didn't work. Just remembered that both cd's were on a Promise ata100 raid card. Swapped some cables around, and I'm in it right now. Very nice, very nice indeed. The only thing I'd like to see from here is an smp enabled kernel. Other than that, beautiful. It's strange that the cd sees the controller card once it's booted, but won't boot if cd's are on that card. I can't think of any other failures like this, but it wasn't difficult to overcome. Just a quirk I guess.
Apparently, the md5 didn't matter a whole lot, it was all hardware related for me anyways.
Lm_sensors did cause the fans to kick on at full speed. Never messed with the sensors before, so tried this.

[Lucifeer]

I don't think that lm_sensors should be automaticly started on boot. It should rather be optional
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