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SaTaN0rX n00b
Joined: 01 Dec 2005 Posts: 21
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Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 12:14 pm Post subject: installcd hangs booting(initramfs) |
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pluggen in the gentoo 2006.1 install cd,
and it hangs around sayin booting(initramfs).
bootcmds were: gentoo-nofb ide=nodma nousb nosata.
the box has only 48mb of RAM.
[edit Made Sticky by NeddySeagoon 5 Sep 2006
Making Me Too posts won't get it fixed any faster,
please post only if you have something to contribute]
Unstuck. -- desultory |
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Kruegi Guru
Joined: 09 Feb 2005 Posts: 406 Location: Clausthal-Zellerfeld; DE
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SaTaN0rX n00b
Joined: 01 Dec 2005 Posts: 21
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Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 10:03 pm Post subject: |
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is there any solution to get it running with 48mb ? |
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Kruegi Guru
Joined: 09 Feb 2005 Posts: 406 Location: Clausthal-Zellerfeld; DE
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Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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You may try a "smaller" linux boot cd for installation.
There are many of these resue CDs around.
You will need to adapt some steps from the handbook but it should work.
Thomas |
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Zdenek Sojka n00b
Joined: 24 Aug 2006 Posts: 8
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Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 10:15 pm Post subject: same here |
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I have the same problem - booting stops at 'Booting (initramfs)'
Pentium mmx 200MHz, 96MB RAM
Tried some flags at bootup, didn't help.
install-x86-minimal-2006.0.iso works fine, anyway ... now i would have to use a stage1 snapshot to install Gentoo there
md5sum of my image file:
00b7962ebf8f67e2385d8dc1ece55235 install-x86-minimal-2006.1.iso |
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red-wolf76 l33t
Joined: 13 Apr 2005 Posts: 714 Location: Rhein-Main Area
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Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 11:08 am Post subject: |
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Me too!
Pentium MMX (don't laugh!) with 256MB of RAM... _________________ 0mFg, G3nt00 r0X0r$ T3h B1g!1111
Use sane CFLAGS! If for no other reason, do it for the lulz! |
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zeuz Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 26 May 2004 Posts: 140 Location: Sweden
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Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 12:04 pm Post subject: |
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I'm having the same problem.
Pentium MMX 200mhz with 64mb ram |
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NeddySeagoon Administrator
Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Posts: 54123 Location: 56N 3W
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Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 12:28 pm Post subject: |
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I could post a 'me too'.
It appears that the 2006.1 install media (all of them) are broken on < i686 x86 CPUs
Its a known bug and is being worked. The 2006.1 stage tarballs may be affected too.
The workaround is to revert to the 2006.0 install CDs and stages and go through the update pain.
Beware - there is a suspision (not yet confirmed) that the bug is linked to the combination of mtune=i686 and gcc-4.1.1, used in the 2006.1 release media. Therefore you may want to hang off the gcc-4.1.1 update just now, if you go down this path.
I have built a base install and a few odds and ends with gcc-4.1.1 and march=k6-2. That seemed to work.
The alternative is to wait for a fix.
I'll post more when I know more - watch this thread or this bug _________________ Regards,
NeddySeagoon
Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail. |
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alexbuell Guru
Joined: 18 Jul 2002 Posts: 490 Location: "Hemp"shire, UK
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Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 2:18 pm Post subject: 2006.1 installer (both CD and DVD) fails to boot :-( |
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Folks, the 2006.1 x86 installer (both CD and DVD) will not boot on my old Pentium 233MHz box w/128MB of memory. It gets to the "booting (initramfs)..." line and then sponanteously reboots. This did not happen with the previous 2006.0 installer.
Has anyone else seen this? Any ideas? I tried lots of options including noapic etc) with no luck.
Why? Thanks. _________________ Cheers,
Alex.
Linux - the best text adventure game ever. |
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NeddySeagoon Administrator
Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Posts: 54123 Location: 56N 3W
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Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 2:31 pm Post subject: |
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alexbuell,
Its a 'feature'. There is a problem with the installer and the stage tarballs for the x86 platform.
Thats CPUs <i686, which includes P1s and AMD k6-x CPUs.
I'm told there will be some new material on the mirrors soon. _________________ Regards,
NeddySeagoon
Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail. |
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alexbuell Guru
Joined: 18 Jul 2002 Posts: 490 Location: "Hemp"shire, UK
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Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 2:37 pm Post subject: |
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NeddySeagoon wrote: |
Its a 'feature'. There is a problem with the installer and the stage tarballs for the x86 platform.
Thats CPUs <i686, which includes P1s and AMD k6-x CPUs.
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Now I find this one out! Didn't they do testing on old Pentiums? I'l gladly offer my services in testing on these platforms so these problems don't happen again. _________________ Cheers,
Alex.
Linux - the best text adventure game ever. |
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NeddySeagoon Administrator
Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Posts: 54123 Location: 56N 3W
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Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 2:43 pm Post subject: |
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alexbuell,
The workaround is to start with a different bootable CD _________________ Regards,
NeddySeagoon
Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail. |
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endo n00b
Joined: 31 Dec 2006 Posts: 1
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Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 5:55 pm Post subject: LiveCD(amd64) really alive? |
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Hello
It seems the livecd-amd64-installer.iso is alive.
The ISOLINUX part was ok because the boot: prompt appeard and it accepted input.
With simply hitting return, or gentoo-nofb command, it loads the initramfs
and (it seems) the system reboots upon completion.
I tried on three Multi CPU Opteron machines, and the consequence was the same.
Does anybody have successful experience with the LiveCD? |
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jclarke n00b
Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 6
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Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 11:23 pm Post subject: |
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I just tried installing on Virtual PC 2007 with 512 MB assigned and got the same message with 2006.0 as I get with 2006.1 _________________ --
--John |
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KungFuJesus n00b
Joined: 04 Mar 2007 Posts: 42
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Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 4:14 am Post subject: |
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yuck, pentium mmx with gentoo? Emerge -uav world would take like a week
I'm a power user myself, but you guys are hardcore. I'm in the process of a G3 300 mhz Gossamer installation, so I suppose it's just as bad. Still, I cringe at the thought of a P MMX. I suppose the smart thing to do would be to use a cross compiler, although I haven't had the time to mess with it and figure it out yet. |
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wolf31o2 Retired Dev
Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Posts: 628 Location: Mountain View, CA
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 4:18 pm Post subject: |
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The problem was that the x86 stage2/stage3 was created with CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu", which caused glibc to build some i686-specific code into itself. This will be fixed for good with 2007.0, where the x86 stage2/stage3 will be built with CHOST="i486-pc-linux-gnu" and the i686 stage2/stage3 will be built with CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu". Also, we don't do any testing on old machines for several reasons. One is access. Another is time. Last, there's developer interest. We simply don't have the time and energy to devote to properly testing on ancient hardware for every release. We spend most of our time working with newer hardware simply because that is where the demand is for new features. _________________ Ex-Gentoo Developer
Catalyst/Genkernel Development Lead
http://wolf31o2.org |
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cookie-monster n00b
Joined: 29 Apr 2007 Posts: 1
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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 11:47 pm Post subject: InstallCd doesn't install on my x86 machine |
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I boot up the installcd for x86 choose the gentoo kernel and it starts loading
it gets me into this console where it says on every line i write with red LiveCD and with blue root#
i do no tknow what do do from here to install it because i did not download the livecd but it still says livecd!
What do i do wrong please tell me!
My machine is new it is a pentium mobile 1,4 ghz 64 video card and 512 ram!
I need urgent help please _________________ MESS WITH THE BEST...DIE LIKE THE REST
Hackers (1995) |
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dyn-westy n00b
Joined: 05 Feb 2006 Posts: 13
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Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 3:32 pm Post subject: need help black screen after install |
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when i install everything when i restart it doesnt do anything doesnt load up nothing and it also says when the live cd that theres a bios bug at something something and that it fails to allocate mem resource what is wrong? |
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TigerJr Guru
Joined: 19 Jun 2007 Posts: 540
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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 9:56 am Post subject: Re: LiveCD(amd64) really alive? |
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endo wrote: | Hello
It seems the livecd-amd64-installer.iso is alive.
The ISOLINUX part was ok because the boot: prompt appeard and it accepted input.
With simply hitting return, or gentoo-nofb command, it loads the initramfs
and (it seems) the system reboots upon completion.
I tried on three Multi CPU Opteron machines, and the consequence was the same.
Does anybody have successful experience with the LiveCD? |
i had same problem but whith Gentoo 2007.0 DVD on:
Memory: 113372k/122816k available
CPU0: Centaur VIA Samuel 2 Steping 03 (534Mhz)
used: gentoo-nofb nox nodma
And then system reboots!
And i tryed other Gentoo release and then boots fine!
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install-x86-minimal-2006.1.iso works fine, anyway ... now i would have to use a stage1 snapshot to install Gentoo there
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wmm n00b
Joined: 26 Dec 2007 Posts: 16 Location: Bavaria, Germany
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Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 1:04 pm Post subject: Gentoo running in an old install on 486 with 16mb RAM |
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Hi Guys,
I thought I'd let you know that I have an old installation of gentoo on my 486 Clevo notebook
with 16MB RAM, true it's not fast but seems to do it's job, will try to update soon with my new
knowledge of optimization tips I have learned so far on my pentium 133 mmx.
Installation was possible via knoppix v3.3 and chrooting to manual install using gentoo-handbook.
Just to let you know it does work, who cares I don't hava a working X yet.
See also my current Project CSSPC on my current homepage in german language:
[url] http://tinyurl.com/2vk386 [/url] or
[url] http://www.fen-net.de/Werner.Mayer/ [/url]
I often reuse old hardware and will therefore also test new releases of gentoo on old hardware.
Bye,
Werner. |
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F1r31c3r Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 31 Aug 2007 Posts: 107 Location: UK
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Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 7:33 pm Post subject: good to see |
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nice too see that your still using older hardware. i remeber working on a 486 dx33 with slax slacware which i had got in floppy's from the front of a PC world magazine lol. Great thing about Gentoo is the amazing simplicity to use distcc which is where you can use a faster machine to compile the code and send back the binary, excellent technology.
good stuff people, oh yea i am sure if you had 10x 200mmx pentium pros all connected using distcc it would not take to long to compile. multi processors over 10/100 Ethernet hehe its all good fun _________________ A WikI, A collection of mass misinformation based on opinion and manipulation by a deception of freedom.
If we know the truth, then we should be free from deception (John 8:42-47 ) |
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