[NEWS] 2008.0-r1 may help if you've had LiveCD problems

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Astro · n00b Joined: 08 Jul 2008 Posts: 1

Thanks for being so quick to fix it up! Looking forward to trying this out (properly this time) on my old Win XP partition. So Long Windows!

elsenator · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 19 Jan 2005 Posts: 89

Thank you very much for the 2008.0 release, I've been waiting a long time for it. Unfortunately i can't get it to boot on some very recent Core 2 Duo and Quad machines. After selecting charset it tells me it can't find the boot medium. It's quite certainly because of some missing pata/sata modules in the kernel since it works just fine with Knoppix 5.3.1 which holds a 2.6.24 kernel.

Is there a chance you will include more of the controller modules in one of these fix releases? I'd gladly give you some specs on the computers in question if you need them. An lspci or something like that.

EDIT: Oh, and let me just praise the entire Gentoo team while i'm at it. After i discovered Gentoo so many things have become apparent when it comes to Linux. So far I've used it on everything from AMD Geode embedded systems to server PC's with Quad core cpu's. It's just so brilliantly apparent to use. To me this is how Linux is meant to be.

flatelin · n00b Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 67

If you can boot knoppix, use knoppix to install gentoo. All the instructions are still the same (chroot, grab stage tarball, etc). Just make sure you include everything you're going to need to boot when you build your kernel.

sham · Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 2:35 pm Post subject:

Thank you for the fast reaction and bugfixing. :!:

elsenator · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 19 Jan 2005 Posts: 89

dberkholz · Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 5:21 pm Post subject:

toralf · Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 6:01 pm Post subject:

After reading this https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159747#c23 I'm wondering why the LiveCD still advice rp-pppoe within the file Getting_Online.txt.

96140 · Retired Dev Joined: 23 Jan 2005 Posts: 1324

shadowknight · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Aug 2002 Posts: 142

Excellent work! I tried the 2008.0 though just got system up and now I see there's an update already! Anyway, I don't know if it's addressed with the update, and I'm pretty sure it's not a bug exactly, but I have a 9800 GTX nvidia card and xorg didn't recognize it. No biggie, every gentoo install I've ever done was from the command line anyway. Up and running now, that's all I care about.

mindwarp · n00b Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Posts: 22 Location: Detroit, MI

Thanks for the quick fix!
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The LiveCD of 2008.0-r1 with the boot options:

gentoo nox doscsi dodhcp

get me to a command prompt, although both the "installer" and "installer-console" take me to an installer that barfs when I try to 'Add a New Partition' in the installer menu.

Does this sound like a corrupted download? Curious because it worked fine on the machine that burned it... (burned from Vista Ultimate 32 with Nero 7 Ultra)

Tested the burned CDs and they worked on the Vista box with X and all, as well as 'nox'...

Does Gentoo always ship with a broken installer? Should I follow the handbook and do it manually from the command prompt instead?

BTW the platform receiving the installation is as follows:

Shuttle SN27P2 Barebones
Athlon X2 6000+ Dualcore
8GB Mushkin DDR2-800MHz
ATI AIW Radeon X1900 XT (R580)
WD Raptor 150GB 10Krpm (System)
Hitachi 1TB 7200rpm (Home)
Syntax Olevia LT27HV LCD HDTV DVI-I 1280x720dpi native resolution (Problematic for X configuration, I know)

Anyone willing or able to lend a hand?
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flacvest

I appreciate the prompt response! There was an error code, and I suppose it would be best described where you mentioned.

Thx, flacvest
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dunp · n00b Joined: 10 Nov 2002 Posts: 3 Location: Finland

Keyboard layout does not work on X, must edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf to get it work.

BeteNoire · Veteran Joined: 25 Sep 2005 Posts: 1827

It's a shame that a long awaited 2008 release came with such bugs... Can't believe that it hasn't been tested enough.
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agaffney · Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 11:42 pm Post subject:

tolis · n00b Joined: 11 Jul 2008 Posts: 1

"For those unfortunate souls who couldn't boot or burn the LiveCD, we've provided the 2008.0-r1 revision bump."

Well done guys as you act fast enough and fixed these bugs.

However, I think that this is an unacceptable situation for a final OFFICIAL release, especially after having a testing beta version for such long time.

In addition, I was surprised when I read the first reply for the bug 231024 (i.e "Why don't you buy 800mb cd instead?").

You don't say this neither as a joke. This is a showstopper and concerns the final OFFICIAL release,

that people were waiting for so long, more precisely for a year and two months almost (i.e ~14 MONTHS).

Anyway, well done again guys, because we know how hard and time consuming is for you the work you are doing for the community.

Best Regards.

dcrook · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 22 Jul 2004 Posts: 83

I tried the 2008-r1 AMD64 live CD and X wouldn't start. It looks like the same issue from a previous beta where the nv driver wouldn't load properly. So I replaced it in the xorg.conf file with the vesa driver and it started right up. I have an Nvidia 9600 card if that helps. I'm pretty sure this was already listed as a bug in bugzilla.

edit:
Found it, it was bug 219825. I added a comment that its still and issue on 2008-r1

apryan · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 31 Jan 2005 Posts: 124

2008 -r1 boots into X as user gentoo. Upon going to terminal it seems I can't get to root via su or sudo. Is there a default password? This is probably something stupid im not doing and not necessarly a bug with 2008-r1.

** edit: solved by opening terminal and issuing 'sudo su -'

shadowknight · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Aug 2002 Posts: 142

If it's the same setup as some of the past live cd/dvds, when you get into x you can <ctrl><alt><F1> to get back to the original console where you'll see you're already logged in as root. All you have to do is change the passwd :wink:

cubancigar11 · Guru Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 340

Downloaded liveCD yesterday after 2 years and got into this problem.

Talk about bad day

leynux · n00b Joined: 09 Apr 2004 Posts: 20

I've dowloaded i686 and amd64. both installed fine on 2 separate machines.

Except happened in both machines:

1: grub splash.xpm.gz not found, so on boot up l see rubbish screen.Basically l just emerge grub and copied splash file according to grub-conf

2: X cannot start:/usr/bin/xdm not found- reemerge xdm

3: Network card module not loaded after reboot. I've to load manually.
cd /lib/modules/2.6.24-gentoo-r7/kernel/drivers/net

motu · n00b Joined: 20 Jul 2008 Posts: 3

Hi everybody,
I have a question.
I encounter this kernel bug - and now the question:
Do I have do download the whole disc-image again, or is the bug only in the gentoo-source package?

Greetings
MoTU

Consul · Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 4:16 pm Post subject:

Hehe. I'm running an AMD64 X2 with an Nvidia chipset, and I'm having a completely different problem. I tried booting to the 2008.0-r1 LiveCD and modprobe died with a stack trace during boot. I couldn't grab the stack trace, unfortunately, as I had no way (that I know of) of saving the text output of the console. Maybe I can take a photo next time. The last time I tried a Gentoo LiveCD, about 8 months ago, it booted just fine, and my system has not changed one iota since then.

EDIT: I tried again, and grabbed some more information.

It happens during the boot scripts, when it brings up networking and all that fun stuff. It detects the processor type successfully, then:

* Unpacking firmware...

And that's when it dies and spits out a stack trace. Here are the human readable parts I found in the trace:

PID: 23048, comm: modprobe Not tainted 2.6.24-gentoo-r7 #1
... some stuff here, then...
Process modprobe ... followed by other obscure numbers.

I know this probably doesn't help, but I offer it anyway.
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