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crazymansam
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 Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 10:55 pm Post subject: Gentoo installation...weird situation, please help! |
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Ok heres the deal...I have versions 2004.1 and 2004.2, both installations do the same thing at the same time...heres the situation
When i boot up my computer, like i should be, im taken in to pick kerenl right after booting...after i pick the kernel im taken to another boot screen...this is where things get bad...the status bar does not move, and everything seems to freeze...my keyboard does not work (no lights or anything even if i push the caps button or num lock) and you cant hear the cd rom spin or the hard drive...I tried it without frame buffer support and the same thing happens...it gets stuck at a point where its searching for something called Uhci
can ANYONE help me...this is really frustrating.
oh...on a side note, bootable cds will not work eathier, same thing happening...ive used all these cds before so i know its not the cd...and ive installed fedora core 2 on the system...so it cant really be the system eathier.
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inode77
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| Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 11:00 pm Post subject: |
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You sure it's not uhci, then it would be a usb thing. I suggest you try noacpi noapic nohotplug as bootoptions for the nofb kernel and see if your system boots linux successfully.
If knoppix does boot on your system, use it to setup gentoo. See differences here:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml
You could do even an installation out of a running fedora (you mentioned this works), it does not matter what you use.
EDIT: Please delete your other post, you doubleposted. Sometimes the forum isn't lightning fast as usual so please be patient. |
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crazymansam
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| Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 11:15 pm Post subject: |
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ok...i tried the boot options and we are back at the same problem...heres exactly what it says when it freezes
>>Loading Modules
::Scanning for ehci-hcd...usbcore, ehci-hcd loaded
::Scanning for Uhci... |
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inode77
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| Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 11:35 pm Post subject: |
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| crazymansam wrote: | ok...i tried the boot options and we are back at the same problem...heres exactly what it says when it freezes
>>Loading Modules
::Scanning for ehci-hcd...usbcore, ehci-hcd loaded
::Scanning for Uhci... |
It shouldn't try to load the modules if you booted like this: "gentoo-nofb noacpi noapic nodetect" But you'll have to load what you nedd afterwards yourself. |
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crazymansam
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| Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 3:37 am Post subject: |
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| same problems...can anyone else help |
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inode77
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| Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 3:52 am Post subject: |
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| What about knoppix or any other livecd (complete toolchain with gcc >= 3.2) ? Do you have one that sucessfully boots? |
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crazymansam
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| Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 1:52 pm Post subject: |
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knoppix works...however after about 10 min it starts to lag LIKE crap...ill try slax and a couple others later..
also, i cant eject the bootable cd for some reason, so i cant get the gentoo cd in eathier... |
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inode77
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| Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 2:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | also, i cant eject the bootable cd for some reason, so i cant get the gentoo cd in eathier... |
Why would you need this? You don't have to use then gentoo live cd to install gentoo on a system.
I suggest you boot knoppix with minimal options and follow the knoppix section in this guide. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml |
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barontick
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| Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 6:19 pm Post subject: |
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I was having the same problem... I would tell the installer to proceed with gentoo, get to the splash screen and it would freeze--the status bar would never move. I had a windows formatted drive as the slave on my ide channel, which was causing this to happen. I unplugged the slave drive and everything loaded up.
Hope this helps |
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crazymansam
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| Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 5:08 pm Post subject: |
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| no data is on the drives...and theres only one drive |
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crazymansam
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| Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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| inode77 wrote: | | crazymansam wrote: | ok...i tried the boot options and we are back at the same problem...heres exactly what it says when it freezes
>>Loading Modules
::Scanning for ehci-hcd...usbcore, ehci-hcd loaded
::Scanning for Uhci... |
It shouldn't try to load the modules if you booted like this: "gentoo-nofb noacpi noapic nodetect" But you'll have to load what you nedd afterwards yourself. |
well...it is...dont know why...ive installed gentoo before and never had problems...this is bizzare |
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austinjreid
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| Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 6:44 am Post subject: |
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try using nolapic in the boot options also.
(its a lower case L in there)
my mobo had lockup problems when accessing the disk pre kernel-2.6.3, so I included the above and it was fine. |
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