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Joined: 17 Jul 2003
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 Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 10:14 pm Post subject: booting a livecd. problem in a new machine. [solved] |
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I prepared my first livecd yesterday 
It starts fine on my machine, which is a dell dimension 4600, it has a pentium 4 processor clocked at 2.8 GHz. But, when I use the livecd on a different machine, which is a dell optiplex gx270 with p4 3.2 GHz, processor, it locks up during startup.
I tried gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.9-r1 and nitro-sources-2.6.9-r2 kernel, with processor setting pentium 4 and 486. Both lead to same result.
The text scrolls by fast so i could only get the following text
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Simple Boot Flag at 0x7a set to 0x1
Machine check exception polling timer started.
gx-suspmod: error: no MediaGX/Geode processor found!
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
apm: overridden by ACPI
devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch (...)
devfs: boot_option: 0x0
Installing knfsd (copyright ...)
SGI XFS with large block numbers, no debug enabled.
Initializing Cryptographic API
inotify init: minor=63
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
Non-volatile memory driver v1.2
hw_random: RNG not detected.
vesafb: Intel Corporation, Intel(r)865G graphics controller, Hardware Version 0.
0 (OEM: Intel(r) 865G Graphics chip Accelerated VGA BIOS
vesafb: VBE version: 3.0
vesafb: hardware supports DCC2 transfers
vesafb: monitor limits: vf = 75 Hz, hf = 80 kHz, clk = 140 MHz
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
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I followed the guide at https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=244837&highlight= to manually make the livecd. Except that I used pentium4 stage2 tarball to make my livecd instead of i686 one.
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kernel (cd)/boot/vmlinuz video=vesafb:1024x768-32 root=/dev/ram0 rw
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was the kernel line in grub.conf, i tried removing video parameter and start too. It lead to the lock up as well.
Any help?
edit: I switched to 2.6.8 from 2.6.9 and removed the video parameter from the grub line. Now it starts. |
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