Gentoo AMD64 on Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe (part 4)

This is a record of the kernel flags that I'm going to use for my AMD64 system. It's an Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe (NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI MCP chipset) with an Athlon64 X2 4200+ chip along with 2GB of RAM. Hard drives are hooked up to the onboard SATA-II controller (NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI MCP chipset). Plus the motherboard has a pair of onboard gigabit ethernet NICs (Marvell 88E1116) and a Silicon Image Sil3132 SATA-II controller. Other chips on the motherboard are the nVidia C51XE, nVidia MCP55PXE, AD1988B, and TSB43AB22A.

In addition, I'll have even more hard drives hooked up to a HighPoint RocketRAID 2300 PCIe card. There's also a 3Com 3C905B PCI ethernet card installed along with a pair of Intel PRO/1000 PCIe gigabit NICs.

# emerge mdadm
# emerge lvm2
# cd /usr/src/linux
# make menuconfig

Linux Kernel v2.6.17-gentoo-r4 Configuration
Code maturity level options
General setup
Loadable module support
Processor type and features
--> Processor family (changed to "AMD-Opteron/Athlon64")
--> Preemption Model (No Forced Preemption (Server))
Power management options (ACPI, APM)
Bus options (PCI, etc.)
Executable file formats
Device drivers
--> ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support
--> --> generic/default IDE chipset support (should already be ON)
--> --> --> ATI IXP chipset IDE support (turn OFF)
--> --> --> Intel PIIXn chipsets support (turn OFF)
--> --> --> IT821X IDE support (turn OFF)
--> SCSI device support
--> --> SCSI generic support (turn this ON)
--> --> SCSI low-level drivers
--> --> --> Serial ATA (SATA) support (should already be ON)
--> --> --> --> Intel PIIX/ICH SATA support (turn OFF)
--> --> --> --> Silicon Image SATA support (turn OFF)
--> --> --> --> Silicon Image 3124/3132 SATA support (turn ON as BUILT-IN)
--> --> --> --> VIA SATA support (turn OFF)
--> Multi-device support (should already be ON)
--> --> RAID support (turn it ON as BUILT-IN)
--> --> --> RAID-1 mirroring mode (turn it ON as BUILT-IN)
--> --> --> RAID-10 mirroring striping mode (turn it ON as BUILT-IN)
--> --> Device mapper support (turn ON as BUILT-IN)
--> Networking support
--> --> Ethernet (1000Mbit)
--> --> --> Intel. PRO/1000 Gigabit Ethernet support (turn ON)
--> --> --> Broadcom Tigon3 support (turn OFF)
--> Character Devices
--> --> Intel/AMD/VIA HW Random Number Generator (should be ON)
--> --> Intel 440LX/BX/GX, I8xx and E7x05 chipset support (turn it OFF)
--> Sound
--> --> Sound card support (turn OFF)
File systems
--> Network File Systems
--> --> SMB file system support (turn ON as BUILT-IN)
--> --> CIFS support (turn ON as BUILT-IN)
Profiling support
Kernel hacking
Security options
Cryptographic options
--> Cryptographic API (turn ON)
--> --> HMAC support (NEW) (turn ON as BUILT-IN)
--> --> (turn ON all other options as MODULE)
Library routines

Now we can compile and copy the kernel to the /boot partition.

# make && make modules_install
# ls -l /boot
# ls -l arch/x86_64/boot
# df
# cp arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage /boot/kernel-2.6.17-25Aug2006-2300
# cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.6.17-25Aug2006-2300
# cp .config /boot/config-2.6.17-25Aug2006-2300
# ls -l /boot

Next is Chapter 8, Configuring your System.

(chroot) livecd linux # nano -w /etc/fstab

My fstab (there are lines not shown):

/dev/md0                /boot           ext2            noauto,noatime  1 2        
/dev/md1                /               ext3            noatime         0 1        
/dev/md3                none            swap            sw              0 0        
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0      /mnt/cdrom      iso9660         noauto,ro       0 0
#/dev/fd0               /mnt/floppy     auto            noauto          0 0

/dev/vgmirror/home      /home                   ext3    noatime         0 3        
/dev/vgmirror/tmp       /tmp                    ext2    noatime         0 3 
/dev/vgmirror/vartmp    /var/tmp                ext2    noatime         0 3
/dev/vgmirror/log1      /var/log                ext3    noatime         0 3
/dev/vgmirror/portage   /usr/portage            ext3    noatime         0 3

/dev/vgmirror/svn       /var/svn                ext3    noatime         0 4        
/dev/vgmirror/backupsys /backup/system          ext3    noatime         0 4

Now for some final clean-up work:

(chroot) livecd linux # nano -w /etc/conf.d/hostname
(chroot) livecd linux # nano -w /etc/conf.d/net
config_eth7=( "192.168.142.100 netmask 255.255.255.0" )
routes_eth7=( "default gw 192.168.142.1" )
(chroot) livecd linux # cd /etc/init.d
(chroot) livecd init.d # ln -s net.lo net.eth7
(chroot) livecd init.d # rc-update add net.eth7 default
* net.eth7 added to runlevel default
* rc-update complete.
(chroot) livecd init.d # cat /etc/resolv.conf
(verify your DNS servers if you specified a static IP)
(chroot) livecd init.d # nano -w /etc/conf.d/clock
CLOCK_SYSTOHC="yes"
(chroot) livecd init.d # passwd
(set your root password to something you will remember)
(chroot) livecd init.d # passwd
New UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password:
passwd: password updated successfully
(chroot) livecd init.d #
# emerge syslog-ng
# rc-update add syslog-ng default
# emerge dcron
# rc-update add dcron default
# crontab /etc/crontab
# /usr/bin/ssh-keygen -t dsa -b 2048 -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key -N ""
(the key may take a a minute to generate)
# chmod 600 /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
# chmod 644 /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key.pub
# rc-update add sshd default

Now it's time for grub.

(chroot) livecd init.d # emerge grub
(chroot) livecd init.d # ls -l /boot
total 3468
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1090703 Aug 26 00:35 System.map-2.6.17-25Aug2006-2300
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Aug 25 18:09 boot -> .
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28714 Aug 26 00:35 config-2.6.17-25Aug2006-2300
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Aug 26 01:03 grub
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2397504 Aug 26 00:35 kernel-2.6.17-25Aug2006-2300
drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Aug 25 16:46 lost+found
(chroot) livecd init.d # nano -w /boot/grub/grub.conf
# Which listing to boot as default. 0 is the first, 1 the second etc.
default 0
timeout 30

# Aug 2006 Base Installation (software RAID, LVM2)
title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.17 (Aug 25 2006) BASE INSTALL
root (hd0,0)
kernel /kernel-2.6.17-25Aug2006-2300 root=/dev/md1

# Aug 2006 Base Installation (software RAID, LVM2) - NOAPIC
title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.17 (Aug 25 2006) BASE NOAPIC
root (hd0,0)
kernel /kernel-2.6.17-25Aug2006-2300 root=/dev/md1 noapic
(chroot) livecd init.d # grub --no-floppy
grub> find /grub/stage1
(hd0,0)
(hd1,0)
grub> root (hd0,0)
grub> setup (hd0)
grub> device (hd0) /dev/sdb
grub> root (hd0,0)
grub> setup (hd0)
grub> quit

Time to exit the chroot, unmount everything, and try a reboot.

livecd / # cat /proc/mounts
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
tmpfs / tmpfs rw 0 0
/dev/hda /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro 0 0
/dev/loop/0 /mnt/livecd squashfs ro 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,nodiratime 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0
udev /dev tmpfs rw,nosuid 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/livecd/lib64/firmware tmpfs rw 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/livecd/usr/portage tmpfs rw 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0
/dev/md1 /mnt/gentoo ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/md0 /mnt/gentoo/boot ext2 rw,nogrpid 0 0
/dev/vgmirror/tmp /mnt/gentoo/tmp ext2 rw,nogrpid 0 0
/dev/vgmirror/vartmp /mnt/gentoo/var/tmp ext2 rw,nogrpid 0 0
/dev/vgmirror/home /mnt/gentoo/home ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/vgmirror/portage /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/vgmirror/log1 /mnt/gentoo/var/log ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/vgmirror/svn /mnt/gentoo/var/svn ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/vgmirror/backupsys /mnt/gentoo/backup/system ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0
none /mnt/gentoo/proc proc rw,nodiratime 0 0
udev /mnt/gentoo/dev tmpfs rw,nosuid 0 0
livecd / # unmount /mnt/gentoo/backup/system /mnt/gentoo/var/svn /mnt/gentoo/var/log /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage
-bash: unmount: command not found
livecd / # umount /mnt/gentoo/backup/system /mnt/gentoo/var/svn /mnt/gentoo/var/log /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage
livecd / # umount /mnt/gentoo/home /mnt/gentoo/var/tmp /mnt/gentoo/tmp
livecd / # umount /mnt/gentoo/boot /mnt/gentoo/dev /mnt/gentoo/proc /mnt/gentoo
livecd / # reboot

Remove the LiveCD and cross your fingers. Success!