Partition check freeze

swtaarrs · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2003 9:26 pm Post subject: Partition check freeze

When I boot the Gentoo LiveCD, it freezes at the partition check after detecting my IDE drives. I've let it sit for 30 minutes, but nothing happens. This has happened to me with both the rc3 and rc4 cds, full and basic. I know my hard drives and disk controller work fine, I have Windows XP, RedHat 9, and Mandrake 9.1 installed and they all work. I've also rewritten the partition table by creating/removing extra partitions with different apps (WinXP disk management, PartitionMagic 8.0, Linux fdisk) to see if that helps, but no results. Anyone know anything I can do to get past the partition check?

herring · Apprentice Joined: 22 Jul 2002 Posts: 187 Location: Norway

Seen this problem before on versions > 1.2
Not sure, but multimoduluar CD kernel seems to conflict with your hardware
EDIT: Try disabling DMA :wink:

Hit F2 to get those boot options.

swtaarrs · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2003 1:33 am Post subject:

Thanks, I disabled dma and it loaded fine. I'm in lynx running off the liveCD now, time to install!

irony · Posted: Tue May 13, 2003 1:25 am Post subject:

Hey, once you installed did you have the same problem? Or is it just the liveCD?
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swtaarrs · Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2003 2:25 pm Post subject:

Once I installed dma worked fine because I could compile support for my ide controller into the kernel (ALi). I guess my chipset isn't common enough for it to be in the livecd kernel.