AMD64 Stage1 2004.3 Install

Petyr · Last edited by Petyr on Thu Feb 17, 2005 4:31 pm; edited 2 times in total

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This worked on my system, and were the things I learned after having several false starts getting Gentoo installed on this box. YMMV. Hopefully the bug with the sandbox is resolved sometime soon. As for 2005.0, when I made my attempt at it I ran into many many problems and ended up with a non-functional system. Personally I intend to wait a couple months so that the kinks can be worked out. Then there's an upgrade guide that hopefully will have the switchover fully automatted.
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Introduction:
If you're like me you hear the words AMD64, Gentoo, TiVo replacement, NPTL, SATA w/16meg cache and you realize that you have an evil grin on your face. You figure "I can take over the world!! mwhahahahah!"
First you must take over the Stage1 of 2004.3. T

Notes:
I am going to give somewhat generic instructions. Major deviations from the handbook I'll be more specific on. For now suffice it to say that I don't intend to retype the whole friggin handbook.

Getting Portage Ready:
The guidebook says that you can use a snapshot, or just do an emerge sync. Take my word for it, use both. Get the most up to date snapshot you can (i.e. at the time of this writing I'm unzipping 1-17-05 right now) and then do an emerge sync. You save crazy time on the sync with all the benefits of having a completely up to date portage tree.

Bootstrapping:
Otherwise known as beer time (make that 2 beers...) Save yourself a lot of time and bust out an editor on bootstrap.sh
Go to line 324 and change

valirion · n00b Joined: 12 Oct 2004 Posts: 6

Joelio · Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 12:36 pm Post subject:

Can't wait to get a 64bit Chip!

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Karsten from Berlin · Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 1:09 pm Post subject:

Uuuups, you have a misspelling in your make.conf:

It's

nptl

for _N_ative _P_osix _T_hreads _L_ibrary.

But unfortunately you have ntpl in your make.conf.

Correct it, rebuild your glibc and it should work (that's the promise from the developers; don't know what happens on AMD64).

Shit happens

, regards...
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Karsten from Berlin · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 12:07 pm Post subject:

Thank you very much for your guide. I've made it.

Some remarks for following readers:

0) Take care when using 'Fedora Core 3 for AMD64' for partitioning your harddrive. Some people and myself had some weird issues when making the first boot. ext3 partitions came up with errors. See here: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-297258-highlight-fedora.html

1) You have to do the 'emerge --sync' __before__ you edit the bootstrap.sh. The sync'ing will overwrite the one that is delivered with the tarball.

2) My make.conf

Karsten from Berlin · Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 8:51 am Post subject:

The sandbox-problems are fixed now. Everything should work as mentioned in the 'Gentoo Installation Manual for AMD64'.
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gonEH · n00b Joined: 16 Jan 2005 Posts: 15 Location: Incheon Korea

Really? The "sandbox" problems are fixed?
If that's true, I have to remerge gcc now..

Karsten from Berlin · Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 7:03 pm Post subject:

Bug 82027
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