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rasmus_boggild
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 Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2002 9:49 am Post subject: Cant boot from cd |
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| I have burned the stage 1 image, but it's not recognized as a boot cd. I have burned it using nero 5.5 on win2k. Does anyone know what i am doing wrong? |
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rasmussen
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rasmus_boggild
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| Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2002 10:44 am Post subject: |
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| Yes all the data are on the cd, but it wont boot from it. |
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kirill
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| Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2002 10:51 am Post subject: |
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| rasmus_boggild wrote: | | Yes all the data are on the cd, but it wont boot from it. |
What's the booting order in BIOS? Is the machine able to boot other CDs?
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rasmus_boggild
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| Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2002 10:53 am Post subject: |
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| Yes, I have no problems booting other cds, only the ones I have burned. |
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kirill
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| Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2002 11:05 am Post subject: |
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| rasmus_boggild wrote: | | Yes, I have no problems booting other cds, only the ones I have burned. |
So what's up, does the pc actually recognize it as a bootable one and the problems come up only after the kernel has started loading? if so, you'll need to make some research on passing optional parameters to the kernel (and which paremeters  )
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rasmus_boggild
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| Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2002 11:13 am Post subject: |
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| No that is the problem, it isn't recognized as a bootable cd. Anyway can you start the installeation from a running version of linux? |
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kirill
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| Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2002 11:33 am Post subject: |
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| rasmus_boggild wrote: | | No that is the problem, it isn't recognized as a bootable cd. Anyway can you start the installeation from a running version of linux? |
Yes it is, that's what I actually do because I don't have a CD burner. 
In this case you could, lets say, just directly jump to the chapter 6 of the Installation Guid and start setting up partitions. When ready, you need to mount the very same Gentoo CD (hopefully it will work this time) and extract... well, just follow the Installation Guide
good luck
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rasmus_boggild
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| Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2002 11:50 am Post subject: |
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I will do that, thx for your help  |
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phong
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| Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2002 3:27 am Post subject: |
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Another option is to boot from a floppy to do the install.
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Zu`
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| Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2002 1:24 pm Post subject: |
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| rasmus_boggild wrote: | | No that is the problem, it isn't recognized as a bootable cd. Anyway can you start the installeation from a running version of linux? |
Sure, just follow Install instructions but start with chrooting. Then just untar the stage1/2/3 tarball you want and keep folllowing instructions.
This way you can start a Gentoo 1.4 installation inside of a working Gentoo 1.2 (much safer since you have a backup system). |
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Zu`
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| Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2002 1:29 pm Post subject: |
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Oh and thanks for these notes. I was really looking for something like this for one of my older computers.
Thanks a bunch! |
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