Can't boot AMD64 (dual core) system

[mdtsandman]

MB = ASUS M2NPV-VM (socket AM2)
CPU = AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ (dual core)

Drives = 2 x 250 GB SATA
All partitions (/, /boot, /var, swap x 4) = software RAID 1 ( /dev/md0-6)

Everything goes smoothly during the install.

GRUB loads as it is supposed to and displays a menu of kernels to choose from.

When I try to boot my manually configured kernel, the system hangs just after loading the IO schedulers.

When I try to boot using genkernel, the system hangs just after the following message:

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NET: Registered protocol family 2

I have done a good number of gentoo installs on 32-bit systems, but this is my first shot at a 64-bit system.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Mike.

[Nick C]

can you post the contents of your grub.conf file please. Also can you check you compiled support for your filesystems into the kernel and support for your ide/sata chipsets too

[mdtsandman]

Can you post the contents of your grub.conf file please.

/boot/grub/grub.conf =

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default 0

title Gentoo Linux (genkernel)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.17-gentoo-r4 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/md1 udev
initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.17-gentoo-r4

title Gentoo Linux
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r4 root=/dev/md1

By the way:

• /dev/md0 = /boot (RAID 1 - /dev/sda1 + /dev/sdb1)
• /dev/md1 = / (RAID 1 - /dev/sda3 + /dev/sdb3)
• /dev/md2 = /var (RAID 1 - /dev/sda4 + /dev/sdb4)
• /dev/md3-6 = swap (RAID 1 - /dev/sda5-6 + /dev/sdb5-6)

Also can you check you compiled support for your filesystems into the kernel and support for your ide/sata chipsets too

Partition/filesystem/ide/sata chipset drivers are all compiled into the kernel (not modules).

Mike.

[mdeininger]

i had issues on my amd64 system with an x2 too with lots of weird errors in all sorts of places, try adding the kernel option "noacpi" or "acpi=off" or disable acpi support in your bios, that fixed it for me...

[Stefan de Groot]

MB = ASUS M2NPV-VM (socket AM2)
CPU = AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ (dual core)

I've got the same system and trying to get it work. Sadly I have the same kernelerrors with a handmade kernel and a genkernel. I will give it a try now with noacpi.

[Stefan de Groot]

noacpi is not an good idea... so I think it is a problem in the kernelversion. I will try later kernel version 2.6.16

[Stefan de Groot]

An older kernel is the solution here. But, there I didn't found support for LAN-device. This can be done to download the driver from nVidia when you're boot from the CD-ROM and make your new kernel. After booting with your new kernel you can make a module for your LAN. Good luck with that last, because that program of nVidia is not easy to handle. I did it to start it in expert mode.

[mdtsandman]

An older kernel is the solution here. But, there I didn't found support for LAN-device. This can be done to download the driver from nVidia when you're boot from the CD-ROM and make your new kernel. After booting with your new kernel you can make a module for your LAN. Good luck with that last, because that program of nVidia is not easy to handle. I did it to start it in expert mode.

Thanks for your help ... I'll give it a try with an older kernel and let you know how things go!

Mike

[bayard13]

i have the same problem as mdtsandman, so i installed 2.6.16-gentoo-r13 kernel and nvidia drivers, after reboot system started, but i dont have connection to the internet.

nvnet is running, and eth0 is configured to my ip(i used ifconfig to check it)

pleaseee help

bayard13

[mdeininger]

is there anything unusual in dmesg? can you ping something on your LAN? please try the commands in this post under the heading "What exactly doesn't work? " and tell us how far you get and what error messages appear: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-490093.html

[Stefan de Groot]

With an older kernel (nessecary now or you cannot boot!) you must make separate your modules for het nVidia-hardware!
Go to HERE and download the very new drivers that came out today. Bring the download to your running new system (sadly without LAN). There you must compile the new modules for the hardware.

Until the hardware work correctly on a new Linux-kernel we must do it on this way. Or someone must make a nice hack on the current kernel.

[mdtsandman]

Thanks.

BTW: I stuck an old PCI 10/100 ethernet card in the computer for now and will get the drivers for the onboard gigabit LAN sorted out when I get a bit more time.

[Gentist]

I'm using the same motherboad and I can't even boot the install media properly. Is there a proper solution to this, or do I have to install some really old version and try to upgrade everything but the kernel from there?

EDIT: disabling ACPI seem to make things work... But that's not an acceptable solution.

[bayard13]

i use 2.6.17-r8 kernel with NOAPIC parametr and everything is all right, so you can try the newest kernel and add noapic in grub.conf

[Gentist]

i use 2.6.17-r8 kernel with NOAPIC parametr and everything is all right, so you can try the newest kernel and add noapic in grub.conf

What's the downside to that?

Oh and, funny thing. If I try to shut down the system, the only thing that actually shuts down is the harddrive. The rest of the system is still active... Although that's only when using the Install CD. I haven't tried it on an installed system. I'll try that out later.