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icelated
Tux's lil' helper
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 Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 9:54 pm Post subject: [solved]bummed out |
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i wanted to use gentoo again.
i have 2 comps and i ran gentoo 2005 stage 1 way back when with no problems, but had to put xp on it and now
i want to use gentoo again so i downloaded 2006
and proceeded to install it from the live cd
and tried minimal cd both wont boot it hangs on 78%
it says starting gpm and just hangs-- NO ERROR
so i downloaded 2005 and tried to boot that up HANGS at starting gpm also
but i do get an error : exec format error
i get an hotplug firmware error also
seems to have a problem unpacking....
i dont know what to say because i dont want to use another distro
it always hangs at that spot.. FOREVER
any help?
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at240
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| Can you get past this by hitting Ctrl-C when it tries to start gpm? |
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icelated
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icelated
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well i decided to throw the gentoo install disc into my xp dell system and it booted up great.
ive tried 2 different hdd in the older system. something must be wrong with it.
i had no previous problems before =(
anyways thx for the help. |
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icelated
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| Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 2:10 am Post subject: [solved] |
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problem solved was an error on my part =)~
it now boots to root
EXCELLENT |
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