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ToiletDuck
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 Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2003 6:46 am Post subject: Gentoo Locks up after boot screen |
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My system is a dual athlon MP 2000+ with a gig of PC2700 ram on a MSI K7D Master motherboard and a Radeon 9700pro. When I put the CD in and go to start it I get the blue initial boot screen. Then I hit enter to continute with install. The screen then clicks and goes to black then nothing ever happens again. I am assuming that it has something to do with my video card but I could verywell be wrong. If you have any idea would you please be as so kind.. Thanks
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iwasbiggs
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Provide more information about "the CD". Someone can better help you then.
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Timmitroll
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As far as I remember the radeon 9700 pro makes some trouble with framebuffer. Though I'm not sure, I always use knoppix to install ...
You could try booting with:
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ToiletDuck
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| The cd is the live cd 1.4 rc 4 disk. I don't get to any options. I put it in. It goes to the blue screen and says hit enter for default. Then I hit it and it goes to black and nothing else. Like it is trying to refresh but can't. Never comes out of it. I have no ability to select anything else or do anything else. |
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Timmitroll
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| Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2003 8:29 pm Post subject: |
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Have you tried typing in gentoo nofb instead of hitting enter?
Another way could be booting into knoppix and installing gentoo from there. I very much prefer this way for I can surf the net and play tuxracer while installing ...  |
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ToiletDuck
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| Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2003 12:08 am Post subject: |
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| No I have never installed knoppix and don't know how to do this. |
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cyrillic
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When you boot the 1.4_rc4 LiveCD, press F2, or you can just type this :
If you want KNOPPIX, you can get it here :
http://www.knopper.net/knoppix |
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Sir Al
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| ToiletDuck wrote: | | No I have never installed knoppix and don't know how to do this. |
You don't really install Knoppix, you boot into it from a CD like the livecd, but with a GUI (if you preffer). Tt seems to have more hardware support than the LiveCD, or maybe just another alternative that might work better for installing gentoo on other PCs.
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