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arew264
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 Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 3:24 am Post subject: Installation Cannot Find CD! |
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| I have an old Dell Latitude CPi D300XT laptop that is having problems with the install. The system hangs at the screen where it says loading live environment... In verbose mode, it appears as though it cannot mount the CD. I am using the universal install disk. I had a similar problem to this one when installing vector linux, where it was fixed by using a kernel with scsi. What can I do? Is it not really hanging but loading files? Thanks in advance, I really would like to get Gentoo working. |
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desultory
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| Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 4:23 am Post subject: |
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You could try passing the doscsi option to the livecd kernel, it is covered in the handbook. See Code Listing 3 in the document referenced by the first link.
It might not have hung, give it several seconds (perhaps more) of it doing nothing before declaring it hung. |
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arew264
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| Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 1:23 pm Post subject: ugh |
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It still won't install. I have tried doing
boot: gentoo acpi=on doscsi dopcmcia
and it still can't mount it.
BTW: the acpi isn't really related but I know I have it.
Any ideas on what to do next?
EDIT:
I looked here
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-217639-highlight-dell+latitude+cpi.html
and this is the same drive in a laptop from the same series. I obviously have to use nodma, but I don't understand the whole kernel config stuff afterward. What do I need to do?
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| Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 1:37 pm Post subject: |
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Try noapic. That occasionally helps people with noncooperative laptops.
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If you can get the livecd to boot, that means you can boot a 2.6 kernel on that machine, since the kernel on the lived is a 2.6 kernel.
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desultory
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| Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 7:03 pm Post subject: Re: ugh |
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You need to get the kernel configuration from the live CD and base a new kernel off of that.
I think the kernels on the live CDs have 'Kernel .config support' enabled, so to get a copy of the kernel configuration from a given kernel image you can use: | Code: | | /usr/src/linux/scripts/extract-ikconfig $kernel-image |
You could also (I think) get the configuration from a running live CD from its /proc/config.gz. If you get the configuration from /proc/config.gz you will need to decompress it with gunzip, as for extract-ikconfig I do not know if the configuration it gives you is compressed or not.
To base a new kernel off the just extracted configuration:
- Copy the configuration to /usr/src/linux/.config.
- Run
| Code: | | genkernel --menuconfig --install kernel |
or | Code: | | genkernel --menuconfig --install all |
or do the manual approach. |
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arew264
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| Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 2:19 am Post subject: moving along... |
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OK, I have booted the laptop off of an old Knoppix 3.4 cd. It normally uses a 2.4 kernel, but I started it with
knoppix26 fb1024x768 nodma
It boots fine with the 2.6 kernel. So... how do I do the whole kernel config thing if I can't install gentoo? The only other linux box I have is running slackware 10.1.
BTW I will be trying the Gentoo livecd later tonight, if that's any use. |
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arew264
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| Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 3:29 am Post subject: Hopefully... |
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| I am going to try to install gentoo from knoppix. Cross your fingers... |
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desultory
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| Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 3:49 am Post subject: |
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| If the Knoppix disk does the whole 'Kernel .config support' thing, same process as Gentoo live CD. |
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