Gentoo just restarts

w|zzy · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 1:37 pm Post subject: Gentoo just restarts

Hi,
I am new to Gentoo and i was doing a test install to see if i liked it enough to turn my desktop to gentoo. I primarily use Debian now.
My problem is this. On my:
Dual Pentium Pro 200
Intel chipset
Adaptec 2940UW - 4gb/9gbSCA
128mb ram.

The booting starts. it starts to read from the disk. And then after the screen going black it restarts.
NO GENTOO screen is displayed AT ALL. it goes straight from the SCSI checks to Black then restarts. Please help.

Cheers,
w|zzy

BradN · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 1:53 pm Post subject:

just a shot in the dark... try moving around PCI cards - this can give them different interrupt numbers sometimes and might help, otherwise, see if you can get a different kernel (maybe from a different distro) to boot?

w|zzy · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 2:12 pm Post subject:

should have added that debian install disk boots.

w|zzy · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 2:19 pm Post subject:

Tried dif slots. same thing

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w|zzy · Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2003 1:27 am Post subject:

Yeah, i saw that. But i don't think so, it restarts immediatly booting from cd, not setup at all. Hasnt been setup either.

Is it possible to boot from say a debian disk and then load the image from there?

w|zzy · Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2003 1:46 pm Post subject:

MMM. not good. Tried many things. Different cards. Different cd-roms.
Guess it just doesn't like something on the mobo. I tried booting the ISOlinuz from the debian cd boot. whcih started but reboot.
Looks like another box is getting debian put on it.
Hopefully i have better luck with my 2100+ fellas.
I have seen a couple of people are running the same stuff as me. So should be good. Bit disappointed though

BradN · Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2003 11:19 pm Post subject:

It's possible to install gentoo as long as you can get booted (from anything) with a non-ancient kernel. However, you ideally would want a way to get a network connection, or start with stage 3. Tom's root-boot disk doesn't work anymore (last I tried) with gentoo 1.4 because the kernel is too old. But just about everything else that's recent should work fine. You just need to partition, format, untar the gentoo filesystem image (stage1, 2, or 3), and chroot and continue installing as per the instructions.

If you can't for some reason get a kernel to work from gentoo, just use the one from debian (as long as it supports devfsd and tmpfs).

w|zzy · Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2003 10:51 am Post subject:

It was gonna only be a test. I had plans to put Debian on it.
I am using Gentoo for the speed the users report.

So once i backup my 30gb i will be putting Gentoo on