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chaotycenygma
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 7:41 pm    Post subject: ultra 5 installation problem Reply with quote

hello all, im new to the board and fairly new to gentoo. i just got my hands an ultra 5 sparc and cant seem to get passed the boot process of the cd. whenever i boot from the cd and boot with the basic gentoo boot option, the boot just hangs on the part right after:

Code:
Mounted devfs on /dev


if anyone can getting me farther than this it would help a lot. thnx!
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ciaranm
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 01, 2004 12:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Does this happen with our shiny new experimental catalyst CDs too (grab one from here)?

Note: if you're using catalyst-built stages you need to do mount -obind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev after mounting proc (just before the chroot).
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 01, 2004 5:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i will try those tonight and let u know
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 01, 2004 5:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

nope, it hangs when it get to

Code:
---- Attempting to mount CD -- /newroot/dev/cdroms/cdrom0


could it be a cdrom drive problem?
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 01, 2004 9:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ok, i fixed it. first of all it was a cdrom drive problem. so for anyone who cares, i put a new drive in and did a
Code:
OK set-defualt boot-file
with the new drive in and everything went well after that. YAY!
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