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hanj
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 Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2004 8:50 am Post subject: Can't get past DMI Pool Data..... |
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Hello
I'm having trouble with my gentoo install. I can boot from CD just fine.. set up my partitions.. get files moved, etc. Once everything is installed, I reboot, and continually get stuck at "Verifying DMI Pool Data ......." It will never boot off of the drive.. I can only boot off of the CD.
Here are my specs.. any help is greatly greatly appreciated.
Board: Abit AI7 (Pentium4 (3.06)) ICH5R controller
Drives: 2 SATA Seagate Baracuda (7200rpm) 200gigs
Kernel: gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.8-r10
I was originally trying to get RAID1 configured, and thought they may be the culprit, so I cfdisked the drives, and redid everything w/o RAID to eliminate that possiblity. I noticed that drives felt like they were hanging occasionally when I was working with RAID.
| Code: | /dev/sda1 /boot
/dev/sda2 /swap
/dev/sda3 /
/dev/sdb1 /files |
Install went off without a hitch. I used grub as the boot loader..
| Code: | root(hd0,0)
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage-2.6.8-gentoo-r10 root=/dev/sda3 |
On one of the install attempts I saw errors mentioning bad sector on hda... which doesn't make a whole lot of sense since I'm using sda or sdb
| Code: | | hda: media error (bad sector) |
BIOS settings
| Code: | Advanced BIOS Features->
First Boot Device: Hard Disk
Second Boot Device: CDROM |
I have to change the First Boot Device to CDROM if I want to boot from LiveCD... else it would just hang on the DMI pool.
There is nothing out of the ordinary in dmesg.
Filesystems:
| Code: | /boot = ext3
/swap = swap
/ = reiserfs |
I also made sure (triple checked) that I mounted /mnt/gentoo/boot and not /boot when configuring grub/kernel, etc
I'm hoping that this is not a 'drive' issue and something I'm missing in the BIOS or SATA configurations. I can always boot using livecd and inspect my files on the drives.. so it is definetly writing to disc.
Thanks in advance for any help
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criis
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Joined: 07 Sep 2004
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Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
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| Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2004 10:51 am Post subject: Re: Can't get past DMI Pool Data..... |
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| hanj wrote: | Hello
I'm having trouble with my gentoo install. I can boot from CD just fine.. set up my partitions.. get files moved, etc. Once everything is installed, I reboot, and continually get stuck at "Verifying DMI Pool Data ......." It will never boot off of the drive.. I can only boot off of the CD. |
If I remember correctly, this is not something Linux writes. In sted it's the bios, so make absolutely sure, that you have that configured correctly. |
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