Can't boot Gentoo Image from CDROM

Fix-85 · n00b Joined: 10 Aug 2004 Posts: 22

Hey guys,

I've been using Gentoo for over a year.

Anyway, today I discovered a problem which i cant solve.

I tried to install Gentoo on some old Duron 900 Mhz PC. However I always get an error at this stage:

Bios does recoginize the CDRom correctly (its an around 2 years old cd burner)
PC does boot from CDRom and says something like "Welcome to Gentoo, press enter to boot"
I press enter and it's working a few seconds get for roughly 1 second some error message in a red window and then the PC restarts

This happens with all CDRoms I try to boot from, but the maschine is still capable to boot from the old Win98 which is on the HD. Anyway when I try to access a CDRom from Win98 the same happens. I can access the CDrom for a few seconds and then it restarts ...

I hope somebody can help me ...

guduri · Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 12:49 pm Post subject:

If you have a spare cdrom lying around I would try it if it works with that... The problem could be the cdrom itself or your ide controller on which the cdrom is. I am guessing your hard drive and the cd rom are on separate IDE controllers?
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Ic3M4n · Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 4:06 pm Post subject:

are you sure you have the right cdrom. what kind of cd have you downloaded from the mirror? x86? or amd64 ... the md5 of the cd is correct?

nixnut · Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 7:58 pm Post subject:

Sounds very much like a hardware problem. Try another cdrom drive. You can also try the cd in another machine to rule out that the cd is the problem.
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