Live CD Boot problem

marstonis · Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 9:18 am Post subject: Live CD Boot problem

Am hoping somebody else has come across this and has a way out for me.

Am trying to install on an AMD Athlon XP 1800. Via chipset, 256 DDR. The funny thing is, I had it drop to a shell -once-. X failed due to a video card problem after this. (resolved, and yes, I -am- still using same card).

Bootup is hanging when it comes to setting up USB. It gets to the splash screen, I F2 it and it hangs. I have tried disabling ACPI/APIC - also set scandelay. It constantly hangs on me.

Am using i686 Live CD btw.

Any pointer are greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Martin.
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schachti · Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 9:43 am Post subject:

You can also use any other live cd, for example Knoppix. Maybe the problem is fixed in a newer kernel (the kernel on the gentoo live cd is quite old).
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marstonis · Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 9:49 am Post subject:

Yes, I use Knoppix quite a lot already, I just -very- much prefer to have a Gentoo Environment to work with when building Gentoo. Now that this problem has manifested itself, I would be stupid not to find a way round the problem. Is that not why we love Gentoo so much?
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white.wizard · n00b Joined: 16 Jan 2008 Posts: 1

Hi Martin,

you can try to install it as a virtual machine using VMware.
I use VMware to test some linux distributions.
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d2_racing · Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 3:54 am Post subject:

Maybe you should use the SystemrescueCD from a guy that use recent Gentoo LiveCD with a custom kernel...I mean kernel 2.6.23-gentoo-r3.

I don't know what do you think of my idea, but I think that you will endup with a standard Gentoo installation CD methode.

d2_racing · Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 3:56 am Post subject:

http://sysresccd.org/Main_Page

NathanZachary · Moderator Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 2605

What is the actual chipset (or motherboard model) of this computer?
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d2_racing · Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 4:22 pm Post subject:

Can you post your lspci