Stubborn Alphaserver ES45

[jezek]

Hello,
I got 2xAlphaserver ES45 with 2x1GHz CPU, 2GB RAM, 36GB HDD, 2x fibrechannel card, fibre ethernet and some AGP ATi card.
One of them have some problem with detecting memory, so I take it apart and made only 1 but with 4xCPU, 4GB 4-way RAM, 2x 36GB HDD.

I booted latest install-alpha-minimal-20121103.iso (kernel gentoo_nolsa)
But during boot I got few errors

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mkdir: cannot create directory '/var/run': file exist
failed to create needed directory /var/run
ERROR: bootmisc failed to start

I solved this deleting /var/run and mounting it to tmpfs
Next error was

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Error creating persistent state file: filename='/var/lib/misc/syslog-ng.persist-', error='No such file or directory (2)'

Cause of this failed syslog-ng - runs OK after mounting /var/run and creating /var/lib/misc directory

Next error I got was when starting sshd

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ssh-keygen: symbol lookup error: ssh-keygen: undefined symbol: EC_KEY_new_by_curve_name

From what I googled up there is some bug and I'm unable to fix this on Minimal install CD

Last what holds me back is that I'm unable to build kernel
make.conf

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CFLAGS="-mieee -pipe -O2 -mcpu=ev67"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"

I gets this error: (sorry for photo but ssh wont work and it's too long for retyping)
http://temp.jezekus.net/IMG_6356.JPG

Edit: Found that kernel compilation error could be a problem with size of kernel., but everything is stripped out or made as modules. Searching for -mlarge-text and -mlarge-data option
How will be performance affected when using this options?

Thanks for any help!
Jezekus

[LinuxFreakus]

I've used the -mlarge-data option on my AS1200 and didn't really notice any problems. I have more than once been tempted to pick up some cheap ES45 servers on ebay but I've been scared off by the fact that they need 240V power (though I've read that if you don't put too many CPU/RAM you can get away with 120V). The electric bill could be a little steep