Gentoo LiveDVD hanging on hwsetup

Hironatashima · Apprentice Joined: 28 Apr 2005 Posts: 212

Forgive me if this topic has been covered. I've not quite found anything quite like this issue yet. It's been a VERY long time since I've worked in a Gentoo or other Linux environment in any capacity.

So long story short, working on getting Linux+ certified, and decided to run a LiveDVD environment on my MSI MS-1795 laptop. it's a Core i7 so I dl'd the amd64 LiveDVD format. burned it to DVD for now, though I intend to push it over to a USB drive later.

The issue comes in when I boot the liveDVD. it starts decompiling and running it's checks, but as soon as it gets to hwsetup, it simply hangs.

a few theories, really only one: Did I try to run the wrong build on my laptop? I was pretty sure the arch-type that I needed was amd64.

or is there possibly something wrong? Some research that i did says try to boot with nodetect option, however, being rusty, I really don't remember how to make that happen.

Thanks in advance.

VinzC · Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2018 3:49 pm Post subject:

I might be as rusty as you are, running Gentoo Live with options other than the defaults... You might want to try boot options nolapic or noapic. as far as I remember hardware detection issues in the good ol' days would be fixed with those options.
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bammbamm808 · Guru Joined: 08 Dec 2002 Posts: 548 Location: Hawaii

Nvidia gpu? Try passing "nomodeset" to the kernel before booting.
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djentoo · n00b Joined: 17 Oct 2017 Posts: 37

Stupid question: Did you ensure that the Secureboot and UEFI stuff in BIOS is set accordingly for a Linux install?

What boot image are you using? Try using SystemRescueCD. I tried the minimal install and liveDVD and had problems with both on separate machines. I just installed Gentoo on an i7 laptop today. AMD64 is the correct version.

Hironatashima · Apprentice Joined: 28 Apr 2005 Posts: 212

Give me some time, I'll take a look at that later, I've been moving lately, so it's taken a back seat.