Re: Gentoo livecd amd64 not working?

[Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>]

Wink Saville wrote:
>> Please provide a link to the livecd you used.
>>
> http://bouncer.gentoo.org/fetch/gentoo-2007.0-livecd/amd64/
>
> I'm using bridging to connect guest to host and use the following 
> commands:
>
> 1) qemu-img create -f qcow gentoo-amd64.img 20G
>
> 2) qemu-system-x86_64 . -hda gentoo-amd64.img -cdrom  \
> livecd-amd64-installer-2007.0.iso -boot d -m 1024 \
> -net nic,vlan=0 -net tap,vlan=0
>
> 3) Enter "gentoo" at boot prompt of guest
>
> 4) Execute" Gento Linux Installer (GTK+)" by double clicking
>
> 5) "Choose your install mode", select "Standard", then NEXT
>
> 6) "Partitioning", select "Recommended Layout", then YES to dialog
>
> 7) After partitioning is complete then, NEXT
>
> 8) "Local mounts", NEXT
>
> 9) "Network mount", NEXT (nothing selected)
>
> 10) "Stage selection", select "Build stage from files on LiveCD", NEXT
>
> 11) "Protage Tree", NEXT
>
> 12) Install activity stop with the progress bar:
> "Gentoo Linux Installer - installation Progress"
> "Step:   Unpack stge tarball"
> "Copying dev-lang/perl-5.8.8-r2 (50/116)"
>
> The dmesg data on the host:
>
> [47119.825384] device tap0 entered promiscuous mode
> [47119.825454] audit(1179158073.252:6): dev=tap0 prom=256 old_prom=0
> auid=4294967295
> [47119.857412] br0: port 2(tap0) entering learning state
> [47134.821907] br0: topology change detected, propagating
> [47134.821914] br0: port 2(tap0) entering forwarding state
>
> Also, the guest is alive I can execute other programs and can
> "Cancel" the install. All seems well, just the install stopped.
>
> I will leave the system up and try to provide other information
> you may need when I get home tonight. Also, to night I will try
> to use the iso image natively just to be sure its at least works.

This reproduces here.  qemu works, so it's likely an interrupt being 
lost.  Can you try out Gregory's apic patchset?


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