On 11/16/2011 08:34 AM, Dale wrote: > > I agree tho that checking those BIOS setting is a good start. If that fails, > boot a CD or something, chroot in, do a emerge -e system. Maybe make some > corrections to the kernel then try booting. Oh, I'd rebuild the input > drivers to, mouse and keyboard. Check the USE flags too. I'm not sure what > all options they have. >
Boot from CD also was failing with a lock so I think it was a mobo/CPU incompatibility issue. Nevertheless I'd like to understand the points you and Michael are making. The Award BIOS has almost no CPU-related options. There is no way I can control cache size from BIOS. Since the memory controller is integrated in the Athlon64 I'd think DRAM settings page could be affected by a CPU swap but I have it all set to 'auto' so I suppose that the BIOS should fix them after the swap. USB is implemented on southbridge, not on CPU. I found no parameter in the kernel config that could be affected by the CPU swap except for SMP setting, but a misconfiguration there should not cause a hang, just a core not being used. Which drivers should be affected by a CPU swap? All the ones I can think of are motherboard-related, not CPU-related. Thanks for the hint on gcc, I'll check the differences on the two systems once I have them back up and working.
