geting an odd error with the 2004 livecd

Antimatter · Guru Joined: 11 Aug 2003 Posts: 463

my system is an 1996 dell laptop.

its an dell CPi 366mhz with 64 meg of ram, tho i'm going to soon stick in two stick of 128 to bump it up to 256 meg of ram.

anyway it works up untill step 5a2 i belive, then all of sudden i get whole screen scrolling up very fast the same error repeats.

kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprove -s -k binfmt-9653, errno = 8

thanks

ive tried to disable other option such as having no frame buffer, no apm, no apic and other options all of them end up with the same result of just an scrolling list of error. the same one above.

Antimatter · Guru Joined: 11 Aug 2003 Posts: 463

anyway for more info.

i already installed gentoo rc1.4 and had no problem, but i'm just wanting to reinstall cuz i majorly screwed up the current gentoo installation and i thought it would be better to just reinstall with the 2004 version.

anyway it works fine up to step 5a2 then it fails.

any idea on this?

Antimatter · Guru Joined: 11 Aug 2003 Posts: 463

i read around and some people recommeneded to try -nodetection flag, and it still failed with the same error.

can anyone help me on this? because its little hard to install gentoo if you can't even get it to bootup

Luud · Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2004 9:43 am Post subject:

Hi Antimatter,

I also have problems with the 2004.0 livecd on my Thinkpad 570E.

I still have the old 1.4 livecd. I use that one to boot. Then install the 2004.0 stage1 tarball and go from there.

I'm now doing "emerge system" (with no use flags set, because otherwise it fails. Openssl complaining about missing perl5, and perl 5 won't install, and my USE list is huge. No time to find out which USE flag is causing the problems.)

You can try this as well.

Good luck
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Antimatter · Guru Joined: 11 Aug 2003 Posts: 463

thanks for the idea, right now i'm downloading the full install of 2004.0 and i'll give that a try if that still dosen't work i'll load up the ol 1.4 and install from stage 1 tar off the 2004 disk.

thanks

Antimatter · Guru Joined: 11 Aug 2003 Posts: 463

this is very strange.

i'm still having no luck, i downloaded the gentoo 1.4 and it booted up perfectly and i then proceded to get up to the point where i needed to get the stage tar, so i pop out the cdrom and stick in my 2004 cdrom and tried to mount it and it would fail so i created an tmp, and mounted to it and it seemed to work but i would get bunch of error when i entered the directory, anyway i didn't see any option anywhere on how to catche the gentoo 1.4 cdrom into memory so i could load up the full 2004 cdrom with the stage3 tar.

sorry if it seems noobish but i haven't been able to find a way to get that damn gentoo 1.4 cdrom to catche itself to memory.

TDobes · n00b Joined: 16 Sep 2003 Posts: 4

I'm experiencing the exact same bug on my Dell laptop. I've filed a bug report, so hopefully someone will be able to figure out exactly what's wrong.

merlin.huff · n00b Joined: 13 Mar 2004 Posts: 4

I am also getting this error. I have tryed on 3 pc's now and they all have the some problem. I am going to try downloading the iso again and see if that is the problem

tjolson · n00b Joined: 08 Nov 2002 Posts: 4

Well, it's March 19th, I just downloaded the 2004.0 universal iso, and it won't boot. I'm also getting the "kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt-9653, errno = 8". Any news on this? I'm trying to boot a Dell Inspiron 3500 laptop.

ezac222 · n00b Joined: 21 Mar 2004 Posts: 1

Im having the same problem to!!
With my dell CPx

stock · n00b Joined: 22 Nov 2003 Posts: 14

i was experiencing the same problem, so i just decided to use a knoppix cd instead. it's not a fix, but gentoo is installing on my laptop as i type this.
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Have Blue · n00b Joined: 26 Mar 2004 Posts: 1

Dell Latitude CPx laptop here, also getting the kmod error when booting from the 2004.0 Gentoo CD. Fedora Core 1 installs just fine on it, though.

eugene259 · n00b Joined: 29 Mar 2004 Posts: 6

I have more info on the matter. I have downloaded the minimal livecd iso for 2004.0, burned it using nero and it booted fine. Then I downloaded the stage1 tar.bz2 and added it to the CDRW making it multisession (also using nero). Thats when I got exactly same problem as described. I tried different combo of kernels and boot options but nothing helped. Then, I downloaded UltraISO iso editing app and added stage1 file to the minimal iso, saved the resulting iso and burned that as a closed session on CDRW. It booted perfectly fine. So, the problem, at least in my case, seems to be that the error appears on multisession cdrw. I do not know why this would make any difference. The other variable is open/closed session but the minimal livecd worked when burned as an open session so it is probably not that.

merlin.huff · n00b Joined: 13 Mar 2004 Posts: 4

I solved the problem by downloading the iso from a differant mirror and then burned it to cd and everything was fine. Guess I must have got a bad iso.