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dmpogo
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 Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 3:20 am Post subject: [SOLVED] Minimal install x86 CD does not load |
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I have a problem using minimal install 2006.1 CD to install Gentoo on my old (PII-266, 384MBRAM) machine.
If I do
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boot gentoo ide=nodma
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The boot proceeds through loading modules, mounting of CDROM, choosing language all right,
however machine just hangs on
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copying read-write image contents to /tmpfs
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CDROM blinks ones, and then there is no activity
without ide=nodma, boot sequence fails earlier, unable to find bootable device to mount.
In this case however, I get a limited shell, which, unfortunately, does not contain hdparm to disable dma at this
stage manually.
What have I checked
1) I though first that my CD is toast, but I burned two copies and there is no difference between the two
2) The disk I'm installing gentoo onto currently has Win98. I have booted into it, and was able to read gentoo cd just fine in the same CDROM, at least at the level of browsing the contents. So it is not that CDROM is unable to read
this disk
3) I tried bunch of 'no' boot options like nodetect, noapic, nolapic, etc, with no results. All of them shorten the boot sequence but at the end it comes to 'copying contents into /tmpfs' which hangs
I'd appreciate any ideas ! Thanks !
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dmpogo,
try theoptions.
You will need to manually modprobe all the needed modules to suit your hardware as you want to use it. e.g. USB, network.
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dmpogo
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| Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 4:46 pm Post subject: |
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| NeddySeagoon wrote: | dmpogo,
try theoptions.
You will need to manually modprobe all the needed modules to suit your hardware as you want to use it. e.g. USB, network. |
Yes I did that.
nodma (ide=nodma) is a must for me, otherwise I'm getting 'no bootable device found', and if I look into dmesg after shell is provided, there are lot of errors on cd drive. With ide=nodma it finds and mounts CD all right
I have all modules loaded fine, which nodetect just skips. With nodetect loading then goes more or less straight to
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mounting squashfs
copying read-write image contents to /tmpfs
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where it hangs as before
I'll try earlier releases, but my second computer is at work  |
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dmpogo,
What CPU do you have ?
What is the full name and date of the ISO you downloaded./
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dmpogo
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| NeddySeagoon wrote: | dmpogo,
What CPU do you have ?
What is the full name and date of the ISO you downloaded./ |
PII-266 Mhz
iso is
install-x86-minimal-2006.1.iso
date 10 oct 2006, size 55476 kb |
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Kagerato
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Are you certain that the system is actually hung? How long have you waited? Pentium II is not exactly powerful these days; there can be little to no I/O activity while the CPU is working.
http://gentoo-wiki.com/Talk:HOWTO_build_a_LiveCD_from_scratch
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I try to build the livecd with genkernel but when it boot, it is bloked on "Copying read-write image contents to tmpfs" Someone has a idea about this problem?
* I had that to with a version of genkernel, it has been fixed in 3.2.6 I believe, but updating to the latest is better with this package.
o LX: Well, I'm working with genkernel 3.3.10 and I do get the above message. I don't even know what it could be evoked by. Anybody got an idea?
o LX 17:58, 8 January 2006 (GMT): A little update on that one: I had the same issue again and again. But I saw that the booting continues after I waited long enough. (Yes, I'm blessed with patience...) The booting seems to go on after that pretty ok.
o LX 08:18, 11 January 2006 (GMT): Ok, the problem seemed to be that I emulated with qemu. Burning a real CD, the "Copying read-write image contents to tmpfs" only takes some 20 seconds. This seems to be ok.
* It takes a very long time to do this stage on my old p2 laptop. I've been trying to figure out why, but I can't seem to mount the initrd to really figure it out. And I've mounted initrds before. This one seems to think it's not ext2 |
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dmpogo
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[quote="Kagerato"]Are you certain that the system is actually hung? How long have you waited? Pentium II is not exactly powerful these days; there can be little to no I/O activity while the CPU is working.
http://gentoo-wiki.com/Talk:HOWTO_build_a_LiveCD_from_scratch
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Had that thought  I left it ovenight !
Thanks for pointing me to howto, I'd be interested to find what exactly livecd is doing |
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dmpogo,
That ISO is good for your P2. However, a P2 is an i686 class CPU, so you can try that minimal ISO too.
Be sure to get the i686 stage 3 tarball, when you get to that stage.
How much RAM do you have ?
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| NeddySeagoon wrote: | dmpogo,
That ISO is good for your P2. However, a P2 is an i686 class CPU, so you can try that minimal ISO too.
Be sure to get the i686 stage 3 tarball, when you get to that stage.
How much RAM do you have ? |
384 MB, RAM wise. I just got harddrive died, with RedHat 9 on it, and decided to be a bit masohistic and put Gentoo, since this is what on my office machines. I'll be trying around. |
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| Using CDR rather than CDRW media allowed install CD to work |
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