From: harold@everywhere.com   
      
   J.O. Aho wrote:   
   > I have run into a really strange problem, and #Gentoo and #Gentoo-Kernel   
   don't   
   > seem to offer any help.   
   >   
   > I have two Asus Crosshair II Formula motherboards. One has the 2009 BIOS (AMD   
   > 9550 CPU, 5 HD) and the other the 0040 BIOS (this one has two GF8600 cards   
   and   
   > AMD 9850 CPU, 1 HD), otherwise they are the same, same type of memory.   
   >   
   > The problem is with the one with BIOS 2009, it boots only one kernel, a   
   kernel   
   > gentoo-2.6.30-r1 I compiled 22 of July with the tun patch applied manually.   
   If   
   > I copy a working kernel from the BIOS 0040, it don't boot, I compile a kernel   
   > on the machine (I tried with gcc 4.1.2, 4.3.2 and 4.4.1) the kernel won't   
   boot.   
   >   
   > I have rebuilt the toolchain, I have even used the one from the other   
   machine,   
   > still the same result.   
   >   
   > I have tried with different versions of grub, from 0.96 ro 0.97-r9 and even   
   > the grub-static-0.97-r9, no difference there.   
   >   
   > I have tried an earlier BIOS on the 2009 (this is the last version I have   
   > changed to and it's the latest released by Asus).   
   >   
   > I have used the old config from the working gentoo-2.6.30-r1 by using   
   >   
   > zcat /proc/config.gz > .config && make oldconfig   
   >   
   > I have started from scratch, I have copied the config from the other machine   
   > and run an make oldconfig on it and then tried to compile the same version of   
   > the kernel, with no success.   
   >   
   > I have made a copy of the only working kernels directory, made a make   
   mrproper   
   > and then copy over the .config and run make oldconfig and then make && make   
   > modules_install (and of course copy the new kernel to /boot), but still no   
   luck.   
   >   
   > The kernel always compiles without any errors, I have everything I need for   
   > booting, file system, SATA drivers built in, so I don't use nor need the   
   inird.   
   >   
   > Building anything else on the machine work as it should, no faults, nor   
   > coredumps or segfaults.   
   >   
   > The only difference I can see is at the point when the Grub has loaded the   
   > kernel, on the only booting one it says:   
   >   
   > setup 0x2e00   
   >   
   > while on all other kernels I get   
   >   
   > setup 0x32000   
   >   
   > after displaying this, the grub becomes frozen, the cursor do still blink,   
   but   
   > the kernel seems to not be really loaded or that it fails in the early stages   
   > of uncompress.   
   >   
   >   
   > I really do not know what to do, I have nothing broken when running   
   > revdep-rebuild, I have rebuilt everything with emerge -eu system just a   
   couple   
   > of weeks ago and I have had this problem from the day when I tried to compile   
   > gentoo-2.6.30-r3 and the problem is there also with gentoo-2.6.31, so it   
   don't   
   > seem to be the 2.6.30 bugginess.   
   >   
   > I would really wish to get this fixed, but I have run out of ideas.   
   >   
      
   You may want to try building a kernel on gentoo using genkernel like the   
   following.   
      
   genkernel --xconfig --save-config --oldconfig --slowusb --makeopts=-j13   
   --kernel-cc=distcc --bootloader=grub --disklabel all   
      
      
   I have had problems making a kernel manually that then will not boot,   
   and using genkernel always seems to work.   
      
   Good Luck,   
      
   Harold   
      
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