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maciekish
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 Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 4:32 pm Post subject: Hang on Activating udev (YES i have searched!) |
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Hi!
I have searched and found either irrelevant information or unasnwered questions just like mine but ill try it anyway =/
I have a P4 with raid on my motherboard and i want to install to a USB harddrive.
The problem is gentoo starts loading some modules then hangs on "Activating udev". If i leave it for like 5 minutes it tries removing every file on /dev/ but fails on every single one because of permission... Then sync error and pc hangs. (Im booting a minimal install CD).
I have tried booting with
gentoo noudev dodevfs doscsi
(scsi for usb harddrive)
and i got the same problem.. PLEASE help!!
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Moved from Installing Gentoo to Kernel & Hardware.
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fidel
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| Sorry to ask stupid questions, but, what a p4 have you got (Dual Core, Prescott, EMT64..) and which boot-cd did you use? Have you got the devices of the computer set up correctly to master and slave and did you set up the bios for all drives etc? |
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maciekish
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| fidel wrote: | | Sorry to ask stupid questions, but, what a p4 have you got (Dual Core, Prescott, EMT64..) and which boot-cd did you use? Have you got the devices of the computer set up correctly to master and slave and did you set up the bios for all drives etc? |
I have a regulare 32bit P4 i dont remeber the model but some other linux cd's work. I used the 2006.0 minimal install cd. The devices are set up properly (since they all work in windows).
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fidel
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| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 8:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Hm, maybe the usb stick makes some problems?... Did you try not to plug the stick before having booted into the cd yet? |
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maciekish
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| fidel wrote: | | Hm, maybe the usb stick makes some problems?... Did you try not to plug the stick before having booted into the cd yet? |
its a lacie (WD) harddrive.. sure i can try without it but thats what i want to install on =/
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| Quote: | | I have a P4 with raid on my motherboard and i want to install to a USB harddrive |
Sorry, I misunderstood!... Still, USB is hot-pluggable, maybe there is an issue concerning having the drive connected while booting.. or if you have bandwith, why not trying with the universal cd?.. |
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maciekish
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| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 8:13 pm Post subject: |
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| fidel wrote: | | Quote: | | I have a P4 with raid on my motherboard and i want to install to a USB harddrive |
Sorry, I misunderstood!... Still, USB is hot-pluggable, maybe there is an issue concerning having the drive connected while booting.. or if you have bandwith, why not trying with the universal cd?.. |
i have bandwidth but do you think the cd's make any difference? Isn't the init process and kernel the same?
And if there is a problem with the usb drive being connected at boot, then how am i to boot from it =/
Ill try tomorrow after work. Thanks this far!
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Corona688
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| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 11:05 pm Post subject: |
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This is not normal behavior.  Reporting it on bugs.gentoo.org might be the fast-track to getting it fixed.
If it's fixed in newer kernels, the livecd won't be an issue once you get it booting from the drive.
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