Hi Kumba, thanks for your tips. Actually, I've got some progress (after I've realised why your kernels did not work) and found that the kernel from Glaurung (http://www.linux-mips.org/~glaurung/) has a framebuffer support and accepts the netboot root (initrd image) from your distribution. So I've proceeded building stage1 system, but got following errors while compiling GCC: ----- Bootstrap comparison failure! insn-recog.o differs make[1]: *** [compare-lean] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.3.3-r3/work/build/gcc' make: *** [bootstrap-lean] Error 2 !!! ERROR: sys-devel/gcc-3.3.3-r3 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 533, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) gentoo-mips-20040426 portage # ----- I'm not sure if this is the correct list to *complain* though. I'm also wondering if this can occur due to the version of kernel that I'm using. Another question is more related to the gentoo philosophy: is it possible to make bootstrap script to only finish things that have not been finished, without repeating the whole thing before? Thanks for your help, Max
